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Mommy’s Not Leaving

Janet Kuypers

I just got back from being out of town for two weeks
the cats missed me, especially Zach,
since we’ve had him since he was a little kitten

he was so little when we got him
that he’d try to suckle
from a mole on our arm

well, we closed the bedroom to go to bed
on our first night home
and he’d run in

wanting to join us

so I’d get him out of the room
so we could sleep
and he would come knocking

at three thirty in the morning,
so dad took him out of the bedroom
for an hour

Zach came back to see me before five
so I let him in the bedroom,
and let him sit with me

he’d sit on my lap, then next to me
then lay down on my arm
then move onto my thumb

and let me fingers curl around him
like they were the shoes
from the Wicked Witch of the East

and dad said, he wants to come in
because he wants to check
to make sure mommy’s still here

and i said,
mommy’s not going, Zach
mommy’s not leaving

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