<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=575629" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Cat-Bird Seat</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Our table was the setting for<br>the aviary breakfast that<br>took place outside the kitchen door.<br>We watched it with the cat</div><div style="margin:10px 0">who, in the long tradition of<br>a feline-driven expectation, <br>stared with a look akin to love<br>(and requisite frustration) .</div><div style="margin:10px 0">An indoor cat, she prowled the house<br>lacking the feral satisfaction <br>for the sage capture of a mouse<br>or any agnate action.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">“Poor cat, ” she claimed, “just wants to play.”<br>I disagreed. “She wants to eat.”<br>We sparred in fun, but either way<br>the cat evinced defeat</div><div style="margin:10px 0">for tortured viewings, through the glass, <br>of birds convening for the seed, <br>which offered them the chance—en masse— <br>to gather and to feed.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The house cat watches—still resigned<br>to suffer at the scene— <br>her eyes a solemn glaze behind<br>the spangled yellow-green.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=David+Nelson+Bradsher">David Nelson Bradsher</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=575629" data-title="The Cat-Bird Seat de David Nelson Bradsher" data-description="Our table was the setting for the aviary breakfast that took place outside the kitchen door. We watched it with the cat who, in the long tradition of a feline-driven expectation, stared with a look akin to love (and requisite frustration) . An ..."></div> </div> </div>

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