A purr in my ear stirred me to wake  
for breakfast, the cat needs me to make  
nudging gently, pawing at my eye  
he coos rightly, “feed me or I’ll die”    

What a fine day to let my hair down!  
but there are things to be done in town  
do you get a decision, yes or no?  
when an empty cupboard tells you to go?    

There’s enough for coffee, grits,  good  
Time to munch, over table of wood  
just check the news and the emails first  
for starters, I don’t know which is worst   

Isn’t this a bright sunny day!  
the kind we grunt for when we pray  
for our backs, fitting on our shoes,  we bow  
to the sun in the blinds, gotta head out now!    

– From Dylan Thomas’s “Under Milk Wood: Eli Jenkins’ Prayer” 
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