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Today we have naming of cats

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Another poetic mashup: T S Eliot's Old Possum meets Henry Reed's Naming of Parts.

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Today we have naming of cats. Yesterday
we had a game of chess. And tomorrow morning,
we shall learn how to wear our trousers rolled. But today,
today we have naming of cats. The chessboard
waits, simple like one of our holiday games,
and today we have naming of cats.

This is the use-name. And this
is the particular name, whose use you will see
when you are given a cat. And this is the private name,
which in your case you have not got. The cats
think to themselves of ineffable names,
which in our case we have not got.