Advice to Women
    Keep cats
    if you want to learn to cope with
    the otherness of lovers.
    Otherness is not always neglect –
    Cats return to their litter trays
    when they need to.
    Don’t cuss out of the window
    at their enemies.
    That stare of perpetual surprise
    in those great green eyes
    will teach you
    to die alone.
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