1 I am packing to go to the airport

2 but somehow I am never packed.

3 I keep remembering more things

4 I keep forgetting.

5 Secretly the clock is bolting

6 forward ten minutes at a click

7 instead of one. Each time

8 I look away, it jumps.

9 Now I remember I have to find

10 the cats. I have four cats

11 even when I am asleep.

12 One is on the bed and I slip

13 her into the suitcase.

14 One is under the sofa. I

15 drag him out. But the tabby

16 in the suitcase has vanished.

17 Now my tickets have run away.

18 Maybe the cat has my tickets.

19 I can only find one cat.

20 My purse has gone into hiding.

21 Now it is time to get packed.

22 I take the suitcase down.

23 There is a cat in it but no clothes.

24 My tickets are floating in the bath

25 tub full of water. I dry them.

26 One cat is in my purse

27 but my wallet has dissolved.

28 The tickets are still dripping.

29 I look at the clock as it leaps

30 forward and see I have missed

31 my plane. My bed is gone now.

32 There is one cat the size of a sofa.