What sort of impersonation could a cat do at a talent quest? 6 stanzas of 4 lines each.
TALENTED
Michele Lourie c 2016
The dressing room was crowded
With the acts here for the show,
A Talent Quest was in full swing
And I’d come to have a go.
A girl was practising the scales
Another did the splits
One comedian was telling jokes
That had us all in fits.
Amongst this happy, nervous lot
In silence sat a cat
He wore a white tuxedo and
Held close a small top hat.
He didn’t seem a bit concerned
But lay there like a sphinx
And when he saw me watching, his
Cats-eye gave two big winks.
I made my way across the room
To the corner where he sat
The Cheshire smile he gave me said
‘You’re as curious as a cat.’
“Are you part of a magician’s act?”
I asked with fascination.
“No,” he replied with a twitch of tail,
“I do a cat impurrrrrsonation.”