will I be a good father?

I don’t know, but I can sure as hell raise a cat. Let’s look (poetically) at the reasons why I will be a good cat dad.

My nana learned algebra so she could teach the kids

Whose math teacher left them for a greener field.

My mom quit teaching so she could raise her four,

Began a daycare, raised twenty more.

Which, I think, qualifies me to raise a kitten.

Of course, I will name him Earnest. Not after Hemingway

(take note of the “a”). Anything I raise will be

Earnest. I will teach him things like the Bible and the Tao.

I will probably even read him poems

and take him to my cousin’s farm to meet the cows.

I think, someday, he will learn to speak. His first words will be:

I’m earnest, meow.