NamingCats

The naming of cats is a difficult matter,
It isn't just one of your Holiday Games.
You may think at first I was mad as a hatter,
When I tell you a cat must have three different names.

First of all theres the name that the family use daily.
Such as Peter, Augustus, Alonzo or James.
Such as Victor or Jonathan, George or Bill Bailey.
All of them sensible, everyday names.

There are fancier names, if you think they sound sweeter.
Some of the gentlemen, some for the dames.
Such as Plato, Admetus, Electra, Demeter.
But all of them sensible, everyday names

But I tell you a cat needs a name thats particular.
A name thats peculiar and more dignified.
'Else how could he keep up his tail perpendicular?
Or spread out his whiskers, or cherish his pride?

Of names of this kind I could give you a quorum,
Such as Munkustrap, Quaxo or Coricopat
Such as Bombalurina or else Jellylorum -
Names that may never belong to more than one cat.

But above and beyond there is still one name left over,
And that is the name that you never will guess.
The name that no human research can discover,
But the cat himself knows and will never confess.

When you notice a cat in profound meditation,
The reason, I tell you, is always the same.
His mind is engaged in a rapt contemplation of the thought -
Of the thought,
Of the thought, of his name.
His ineffable, effable, effanineffable,
Deep and incrutable, singular name.
Name, name, name, name, name....