Enforcer

A cat named Rudy may be small,
but he acts like he knows it all.
He flashes eyes so big and bright,
a sign of kitty smarts all right.

He sits upon the porch next door,
a feline picture we adore.
When one old lady crossed the walk,
all-knowing Rudy tried to talk

meowing in his cat-like way,
insuring that he had his say.
Announcing, I would speculate,
that he goes first while others wait.

That lady turned to us and grinned,
red-faced all right as if she sinned.
Then Rudy raced to yard out back;
his sentry duty is not slack.

Indeed he keeps a watchful eye
when thieves afoot will up and try
to break and enter homes out there—
one burglar tried yet got nowhere

when he saw Rudy coming close:
a bitter pill, he got a dose
of how the rate of crime can fall,
helped by a cat who knows it all.


24 Lines
Writers Cramp
1-28-20
[Required: know-it-all cat; old lady; burglar]