This Cat by Gabriela Pearse

This cat
she expects love.
Demands it
stalks it
feels she has a right to it.
She is not ashamed—
I wish I were more like this cat.

From: Duffy, Carol Ann (ed.), I Wouldn’t Thank You for a Valentine: Poems for Young Feminists, 1992, Henry Holt and Company: New York p. 27.
(https://archive.org/details/iwouldntthankyou0000duff/page/26/mode/2up)

Date: 1987

By: Gabriela Pearse (1962- )