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Authors: Francesco Marciuliano
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I miss everything that once was me
Before I climbed this stupid tree
Cute bed jump
See yes yes
No don’t door
Ball ball couch
Yes chin ear
Got tail tail
Run food skid
I’m just three
Weeks old and
Not good with
Man talk yet
My deepest thanks to Emily Haynes, Scott Mendel, Emily Dubin, Becca Cohen, Emilie Sandoz and the fantastic people at Chronicle Books who made all this possible and let me keep the word “Pee” in the title.
And a very loud “Thank You!” for all the love and support from Mom, Dad, Marcello, Kim Lofgren, Ari Jaffe, Lena Verkhovsky, Maryanne Ventrice, Dan Piraro, “Alspaugh” and every cat who somehow managed to use a keyboard without typing “Thustewje cdtfxjhsyt kshs” for 120 pages.
FRANCESCO MARCIULIANO
writes the comic strip
Sally Forth,
which runs in 700 newspapers (and the webcomic
Medium Large,
which does not). He was Head Writer for the Emmy Award-winning children’s show
SeeMore’s Playhouse
and has written for
Onion News Network, Smosh.com, McSweeneys,
and The New York International Fringe Festival. It took him over 30 years to learn how to spell his entire name correctly.
Text copyright © 2012 by FRANCESCO MARCIULIANO.
All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced in any form without written permission from the publisher.
ISBN 978-1-4521-1058-5 (digital)
The Library of Congress has cataloged the previous edition as follows:
Marciuliano, Francesco.
I could pee on this, and other poems by cats / by Francesco Marciuliano. p. cm.
ISBN 978-1-4521-1058-5
1. Cats—Poetry. I. Title.
PS3613.A7348C68 2012
811’.6—dc23
2011053152
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Dedication
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(Ornament)
© George Shukhn via Wikimedia Commons
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