I’LL BE ME
Yesterday, I was wishing that
Instead of me, I could be my cat.
I could go where I liked to go
In my furry suit
Just right for snow,
Without any boots to be putting on,
And none to bother where I’d gone.
If I took the notion, I even might
Go out for a walk in the middle of the night!
But today I decided I’d rather be
Instead of my cat, just simply me,
‘cause I’m learning to skate
and I couldn’t do that
In a thousand years
If I were my cat.
(Langston Hughes)