Art and a Poem by Marge Simon

List for Android Cat Sitter
by Marge Simon

Dawn:
Open back door.
Let children out.

Breakfast:
Hum “Good Morning To You” softly.
Carry Fluffy into the dining room
with food.
Close door.
Let Pepper out.

Lunch:
Do not speak.
Carry Pepper into the kitchen
with food.
Close door.
Let Fluffy out.

Dinner:
Make ambient sounds.
Carry Fluffy into the living room
with food.
Close door.
Sing lullaby.
Carry Pepper to attic.
Carry Fluffy to basement.
Close both doors.

Midnight:
Open front door.
Let children in.





Marge Ballif Simon freelances as a writerpoetillustrator for genre and mainstream publications such as Strange Horizons, Flashquake, Sniplits, Vestal Review, Flash Me Magazine, The Pedestal Magazine, Dreams & Nightmares. She edits a column for the HWA Newsletter, "Blood & Spades: Poets of the Dark Side." She is the editor of Star*Line, Digest of the SF Poetry Association. In addition to her poetry, she has published two prose collections: _Christina's World_, Sam's Dot Publications, 2008 and Like Birds in the Rain, Sam's Dot, 2007. She won the Bram Stoker for Best Poetry Collection with Charlie Jacob, Vectors: A Week in the Death of a Planet, Dark Regions Press, 2008. A new collection, Unearthly Delights (self illustrated in color) is forthcoming from Sam's Dot Publications, 2010. Her Website.