Robert C. Yokokawa
by Hideo Yokokawa
He is from
Canada
with deep blue eyes wearing lilac mink fur,
a pure Tonkinese.
Michi took him up
out of the cardboard box from an animal shop.
Caressing one another in her arms,
she put him on the table.
"Bobbie is his name"" said I.
She let out a little burst of laughter.
At that mischievous age of just 4 months,
released from the narrow cage of a shop,
with furious rapidness and speed,
he jumped and run all around the rooms
tirelessly. -
the male's instinct.
At the 3rd night, in my bed,
he put a chopstick on my breast ? a tribute,
from where I couldn't tell he caught this game.
Just beside my pillow,
putting the seal on the haft and sheath tightly,
he placed his noted sword on his right side
neatly
and kept sitting gently.
Deeply impressed with
the noble manner of his formal greeting,
I opened the side of my bracket and
guided him into my bedclothes.
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