This is My Chair

This is my chair.

Go away and sit somewhere else.

This one is all my own.

It is the only thing in your house that I possess

And insist upon possessing.

Everything else therein is yours.

My dish,

My toys,

My basket,

My scratching post and my Ping-Pong ball;

You provided them for me.

This chair I selected for myself.

I like it,

It suits me.

You have the sofa,

The stuffed chair

And the footstool.

I don't go and sit on them do I?

Then why cannot you leave me mine,

And let us have no further argument?

Paul Gallico from the book The Great Cat -poems about cats, Everyman's Library Pocket Poets.