Cats

I don't know about you,
but the reason I have a cat
is so that I can say hello
about a hundred times a day.
Kitty puffs out a little Meht,
coming around a corner,
up the stairs, back inside,
after the shower or the dawn,
and its not always for food
that hello, no sir, its
Hey whats up Meht?, 
good to see you, hey now, 
nice day, you are looking fly.
Sometimes that is followed
by a good petting or chin scratch.

The Russian psychiatrist I work with
sat me down and said
Why do you say hello more than once?
I guess in Russia they don't do that,
but after two years he tolerates it.
He also said Why do you counsel them
to feel painful things?
My mother died and I don't think about her. 
I doubt he has any pets, but I wonder what he will say
when he runs into the ghost of his mother.