Aventurine

aventurine eyes

green little holes

through which he spies

the cat sat watching

still as a post

waiting for me to move

he tilted his head

as if he could upend me instead

shake the inaction from my limbs

where I sat eating, being eyed

by a green-eyed cat

one eye on me

one eye on the slivers of meat

"you know"

I said

"this is bad for cats

it's full of salt and junk"

the cat smiled and said
"that may be true

but as I hear it tell

it's bad for humans too"

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