A Quatrain for Gossips
      A Quatrain for Gossips


      The whispers and the spying
           and the gossip of the rats --
      with one claw I'd rip your guts out
           and feed them to my cats.
      Now you come with sweet words
           and manner so endearing.
      Still I would cut your nuts off
           and wear them as an earring.



      ~XineAnn