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Thursday, February 18, 2010
a cat to dangle
we all have a cat to dangle
over the heads of our foes
to threaten them with
all the consequence
(metaphorically, I suppose)
Wouldn't the consequences likely be threatening us, since we're the ones dangling a presumably irritated cat?
I don't see what consequences might weigh down upon the foes in here, since if our arm/hand survived dangling the cat well enough to let it drop at a chosen time, said cat would probably just land and leap right off any person below it.
While trying to figure this poem out, I was at one point imagining dangling a cat like you'd dangle a cat toy, and wondering how big another cat would have to be to have the dangling cat be toy-sized. . .
But of course, the consequence there, for the dangle-ee, would just be the possibility of some play with no ultimate payoff.
3 comments:
Ah, the old dangling cat ploy.
Wouldn't the consequences likely be threatening us, since we're the ones dangling a presumably irritated cat?
I don't see what consequences might weigh down upon the foes in here, since if our arm/hand survived dangling the cat well enough to let it drop at a chosen time, said cat would probably just land and leap right off any person below it.
Lol for willow's comment!
While trying to figure this poem out, I was at one point imagining dangling a cat like you'd dangle a cat toy, and wondering how big another cat would have to be to have the dangling cat be toy-sized. . .
But of course, the consequence there, for the dangle-ee, would just be the possibility of some play with no ultimate payoff.
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