With Apologies to Kafka & Cockroaches

Dad’s gone crazy,

Thinks he’s a cat.

Started eatin’ Kitty Chow

& livin’ in a hat.

Oh, dear Mama,

What we gonna do?

Put ’im a brown bag?

Sell ’im to the zoo?

“Children, children,

Do not fear.

Give ’im some catnip,

& a bowl o’ beer.”

Dad’s gone crazy,

Actin’ like a cat.

Purrin’ scratchin’

Sittin’ on my back!

“Children, children,

Mind me now!

Better he’s a cat—

Last week he was a cow.”