Noll on Cousin Simba

For near on forty years,

ever since My Own's sister

chose the name for the family's first cat:

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There has always been a "Simba."

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Simba the Fourth,

Coy inside cat

Dark pointed, blue-eyed Siamese,

Shares his homey rustic ranch

With dogs, kitties, horses, geese.

Whiskers as long as walrus tusks

Gentle giant, gentle meez.