StarCat/CatStar
StarCat/CatStar is dedicated to the memory of David Bowie, that cosmic subversive who’s returned at last to his ethereal home.
StarCat/CatStar is dedicated to the memory of David Bowie, that cosmic subversive who’s returned at last to his ethereal home.
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You get out of bed and stand in front of the mirror.<br />
You pose, hips turned slightly forward, one leg in front of the other,<br />
knee bent, arms up, showing off your biceps.<br />
You're lean and muscular, the toughest street cat I know.<br />
I watch you posing, look at the body you've built to fight the pain.<br />
I look, and what I see is beautiful.<br />
Author bio: Ben lives in San Francisco with his wife, Gretchen, and their<br />
two cats, Caesar and Loki. Previous poems have been published in the<br />
2014 Poets 11 Anthology and Clockwise Cat, issue #29. Stories have<br />
appeared in Every Day Fiction and Fiction on the Web. Ben also reads his<br />
poetry at various Bay Area venues. When he’s not writing or reading, he<br />
teaches English as a Second Language at City College of San Francisco.<br />
Visit him at benfinateri.com
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