The Cats' Protection League by Roger McGough

Roger McGough was born in Liverpool in 1937 and is an English performance poet. He presents the BBC Radio 4 programme Poetry Please, which I recommend highly. He has a website at www.rogermcgough.org.uk

The Cats' Protection League

Midnight. A knock at the door.
Open it? Better had.
Three heavy cats, mean and bad.

They offer protection. I ask, 'What for?'
The Boss-cat snarls, 'You know the score.
Listen man and listen good

If you wanna stay in the neighbourhood,
Pay your dues or the toms will call
And wail each night on the backyard wall.

Mangle the flowers, and as for the lawn
a smelly minefield awaits you at dawn.'
These guys meant business without a doubt

Three cans of tuna, I handed them out.
They then disappeared like bats into hell
Those bad, bad cats from the CPL.

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[harvest1moon1cute]

for my homework i hade to reshearch about him.........which i didn't really wants to so because poetry ant my thing...i rather listen to music in my room but i hade to do the homework or get detention AGAIN so i researched about him and went on youtube to listen to one of his poems and guess what! its wasn't so bad for a old man ( no afence ) so yeh.....i dont know why i told you that lol XD

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[BeerGogglesReviews]

That is BRILLIANT.

[weelambkin]

CPL are for rich range rover owners.they get the nod when kittens are born because they can make more generous donations.the poor are reduced to eating scabby old feral meat from iceland.

[autolupus]

It's Roger McGough!

You like him or you don't.

[massiveants]

great poem

[adamduke1986]

Cheryl!!

[AmilySillon]

Ditto lol

[sikorski]

Ha ha! Excellent!

[someonelikemyself]

Word Juggling Genius...

Huge inspiration of mine.