They say you should start with two
and that’s exactly what I did
but two became four
and four turned into six.
And now I have eighteen cats
in eighteen different colors.
Oh, I’ve got all the classics:
white, black, grey, and chocolate.
I’ve even got a spotted,
a tortoiseshell and a lilac.
A blue, a smoke, a red,
here comes my calico!
A silver and a mackerel,
a harlequin and a tuxedo.
And there’s my little cinnamon,
napping with the fawn,
and there goes the chinchilla,
always on the run.
I love my eighteen cats,
I truly love them all.
I only wish I knew
where they keep coming from.