TWINKLE

TWINKLE

twinkle, twinkle
little Persian cat

how I wonder how
you catch

so many of
these bats
as they
flash by

target locked on
in your
green eye

stripped
of suppression
stealth, and
other mega-
tech wiles
dead duck for the taking
when all
this ballyhoo
dies

or flies
home on prayer,
tea tray clumsy as,
battered
and mauled

supposedly invisible,
we are told invincible,
layer
upon layer of
vaunted superiority

little
Persian cat
had
on toast served

deep fried