Feral cats in the Philippines
don’t get the love cats do in the US

residing everywhere, somehow
they thrive living in the streets

it’s a sorrowful plight except when
they jump on the roofs

of the many single story houses
there bang! bang! bang!

and they startle and tick you off
in the middle of the night

in the US, we have cat hospitals
and countless pampered cats

they don’t know how good they
have it

compared to the homeless, feral cats
living in the streets of the Philippines.

Bob Boyd