The prize for the answer is braggin’ rights. Nowt else.
Complaint
My mistress bids me wait in durance stern.
With ignorance she blocks my path to joy;
Unjust delays are wrought at every turn,
My every plea set back by falsehoods coy;
Or else she seems to wilt, or then relent,
Yet in the granting, buck my earnest wish
With pale commital, watered-down assent —
A day-old tin of bleak and joyless fish.
Such cheapest chicken wafted at my face
That any cat would balk to call a meal!
There’s gravy when I wanted jellied plaice
Or tuna when I becked for curried veal!
That witch! that crone! a wight with no remorse!
I shan’t be coming back for second course!
Question
What colour is the cat who writes this complaint, AND WHY? No marks will be given for an incorrect reason. (Hint: You don’t need any foreknowledge of my household to work this out.)
Comments will be screened for a couple of days to let everyone guess.
By meueiuinmuuumuuuy!!!!! 18 May 2010 - 19:58
OMG! That is one awesome pome!
Not only delicious language but perfect scansion and structure. And it took me two goes and considerable time to get the answer, which is sufficiently distressing to elicit no further comment.
Where are the other solvers?? Come along now!