I never gave this a title,
because nothing seemed quite right.
I waited up all night, calling, calling for it,
phoning the neighbours, asking around,
but I couldn't find it anywhere.
I set out a bowl of sweet milk, hoping it'd come
creeping cat-like to me.
I put ads in the paper:
WANTED
Accurate, evocative title,
simplistically charming.
I put out a reward, and sat through hundreds of callers,
telling me that 'this-is-the-one' mantra,
over and over again.
But they're never right, it's never you.
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