The Tomcat And The Lady Skunk
A Tomcat met a civet cat,
and he was smitten just like that.
Her pointed nose, her dainty feet,
when stamping them, she looked so sweet.
Her broad white stripe, her jet black hair,
he vowed to follow anywhere.
So through the fields, hills and hollow,
she would lead and he would follow.
When the male skunks came around,
the cat would hiss, and stand his ground,
and swelling to three times his size,
with spitting mouth and flashing eyes.
Then all her other suitors grinned,
once the tomcat got down wind.
Encountering that awful stench,
the odor gave his heart a wrench.
His eyes rolled back, his tail went stiff.
He dared not take another whiff.
He said, “Lady this has been grand,
but I’ve enjoyed more than I can stand.”
He thought it’s really not so bad,
to want a thing he never had.
Better than forever haunted
by something he never wanted.
Del Gustafson is the author of Bulls, Broncs and Barrooms—a book of Cowboy Poetry, some humorous, some reflective. http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00YC5C55C
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