Poem for Childless Cat Ladies, Dog Ladies, Ladies with Lizards and Everyone Else Out There.
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I Published My First “Childless Cat Lady Poem”
Here, on Instagram and later on Facebook a few weeks ago, after JD Vance’s comments surfaced. The poem got a fair amount of likes. A numbef of my friends posted that though they aren’t actually “childless cat ladies” they felt Vance was insulting them too. Some identify as childless dog ladies, some are ladies who don’t have children, but do have lizards, or birds or snakes, or just difficult jobs, or jobs that keep them on the road, or aging parents they need to care for, or ambitions that prevent them from becoming parents, or debts to pay off or. . . or… or… the list goes on. It made me think of all the different kinds of ladies there are, and all the different kinds of lives we are allowed to live in this country.
I wrote this poem for us, for them, for everyone.
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This also speaks for me. Although I only had a cat years ago I didn’t come out as gay until my mid-50s, at a time when the idea of adopting a child by those like me was still illegal.
By the time it was legalized I was already ready to retire and too old to adopt. (I don’t like the idea of bringing a child into my home, knowing that it’s very likely I could die before they were old enough to be able to fend for themselves. It’s a rather vain gesture.)