Some friends and I were fooling around on our school Chromebooks (a way I find many an interesting thing online, like 2048) when one of them introduced me to a random generator, for stories, songs, poems, names, letters and more. Standardly, I’m unimpressed with random generators, but it was good for a laugh. I decided to write a ballad using their system, as an homage to one of the cats I grew up with, MungoJerry (named after the character from Cats). The result was good enough for me to share it here.
It began on an Old Spring Afternoon:
I was the most Smart Writer around,
He was the most Sweet Cat.
He was my Brother,
My Sweet Brother,
My Cat.
We used to Eat so well together,
Back then.
We wanted to Yowl together, around the world,
We wanted it all.
But one Afternoon, one Old Afternoon,
We decided to Yowl too much.
Together we Yelled at a Vet.
It was Lethargic, so Lethargic.
From that moment our relationship changed.
He grew so Stationary.
And then it happened:
Oh no! Oh no!
He Cried to God.
Alas, God!
My Brother Cried to God.
It was Dying, so Dying.
The next day I thought my whiskers had broken,
I thought my tail had burst into flames,
(But I was actually overreacting a little.)
But still, he is in my thoughts.
I think about how it all changed that Afternoon,
That Old Spring Afternoon.
My tail... ouch!
When I think of that Sweet Cat,
That Sweet Cat and me.
We miss you, Mungo.
