Cat ladies come to be,
Not by genetic ancestry
Or any other inheritance,
But if, by chance,
When she is young,
She gets a cat hair on her tongue
And swallows it.

Cat hair is not digestible,
And so it follows
That this foreign bit
Will stay in her system
The rest of her days
And grow into being,
Like a pregnancy,
Until she becomes
Her own baby,
And is born again
As a cat lover
And as a true cat lady.

Now, please don't complain
That I didn't explain
And connect every dot
In the middle there.
Just please, be careful
What kind of hairs you swallow.

-jenn