The Day of the Dead

Today is the day of the dead, and I can only pray for them, for I don't go out with the animero and we don't create altars for them.  It's also a day for me to remember my kitten, Canek.  He wrote a "calaverita" last year for me, and though he deleted all he ones he'd written from his blog, I'd already saved mine, here it is (In Spanish, of course)

Nadixiellí, Minino.

Grams, Auntie, love you so very much.

Lunita
¡Ay lunita mia cuanto te he extrañado!
Desde que Doña Catrina a tí te ha llevado
Porque requiere de letra y verso rimado
Llevándote ahí donde nadie se ha animado.
Miraré en tu lápida un verso que ha quedado,
¡¿aquí descansa la escritora
que la muerte gustosa, ¡fría me la ha dejado!?

Canek, 11-01-2005