The car was red.
The cat was dead.
It had blood streaming out its head.
Our family cried
because he died
but even though we tried and tried
we could not wake our sleeping pet
and so we took him to the vet.
He said it would be a better story
if we could find a crematory,
so we took an old tin pail we found
rolling around about the ground
and in we placed our sleeping cat.
We lit a match
and that was that.
We didn’t expect the end so near -
we thought at least another year
so we were semi-unprepared.
But what the heck.
At least we cared.