I’ve never done a ‘giveaway’ before, partly because it seems like only proper bloggers do giveaways, and partly because I don’t normally have things to give away, but because this year I have been paid for a few bits and pieces in book vouchers, I have a surfeit of book vouchers! I never get around to using them because I forget to take them into bookstores with me and am too distracted and lazy to ever place the vouchers permanently in my bag so that they’ll be there when I need them, so instead I just buy books spontaneously with ordinary money. And, to be honest, I have many books to read before I even think about buying more. In fact I must now be prevented from buying any more. Someone would be doing me a favour if you took these godforsaken book vouchers off my hands.
I have a $100 Booksellers card (expires March 2018), a $40 Booksellers card (expires August 2018), and a VicBooks gift voucher of $45 (it doesn’t say anything about an expiry). You can use the Booksellers one at any bookstore, but you can only use the VicBooks one at a VicBooks store.
If you would like me to send you one of these vouchers, please write a poem of no more than three lines and post it as a comment. The poem must mention Jerry, who is pictured in various settings below. I’ll pick the three poems I like best (that’s if I even get three poems. i.e. if only one person comments then they can have all the vouchers). The competition closes on 5pm Sunday 19 November.
Any comments saying that it is bad behaviour to give away book vouchers will be deleted.
Spaceman
Bucket
Toes
EYELASHROAMING 
My name is Jerry, and I ain’t rude
Unlike the funny little dog
Who come and steal yo’ food
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Here’s to you, merry Jerry!
Marshmallow fluff with a tiger tail.
Splendid, very!
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The first cat in space
Jerry’s bucket of moon rocks
Toes afloat, no gravity
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My name is Jerry and I’m a cat
I stretch my toe but you MUSTN’T TOUCH THAT
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I love the pictures of Jerry
He is my favourite cat
I don’t even want the book vouchers
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Jerry, you extra big single scoop
Bower-bird Jerry
best not taken by your stripy handle
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This is Jerry the tom to Ground Control
I’m in my furry capsule and feeling very still
I hope that dinner won’t consist of just a protein pill
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Orangina, Orangina
How I love your small toe bean
Eh
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this made me laugh out loud
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That white fluff belly
Jerry struggles on the street
but truth tell prefers to snuggle on sheets
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Today there is no sun outside of sun, and Jerry
is okay with that, lounging noble on the ground
not waiting.
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A loaf
A sausage, a soft-boiled egg.
A feast of fancy, Jerry.
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Two years’ worth of books to collect on my next trip home
Unity Books should prepare itself for a whopping sales day sometime in Feb
Or does Jerry the Spacecat deliver to Berlin?
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Little fist, a cat paw
(Never say moon, stars or bone)
Jerry spit-swore I could have a book voucher
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Oh tiny bird
Will you be eaten
By Jerry the cat
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So much depends
Upon a Jerry in your timeline
Right when you need him most
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Panther-like, Jerry strides
into the blustery Wellington night
paws, sharp knife… Gareth Morgan in his sights
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This is my poem:
Jerry, the ring-tailed lounger
warm concrete
one pesky fly.
5 yr old Mae would also like to enter. This is her poem.
Once upon a time there was a cat named Jerry
Who rode his bike everywhere
And his tail was stripy.
Her big sister Jean (7) would also like to enter. This is her poem.
Once there was a cat named Jerry,
Who lived in a house on a hill,
His owner’s name was Ashleigh and he wanted to go to school.
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These are AMAZING. I love them. Thank you.
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Just within the cat, a promise
resonant as a purr.
Yes.
(Jerry’s name’s embedded in first and last letters of lines 1 & 2 , and first letter of line 3.)
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I remember when you came to live with Ashleigh
and it was great then, too. This year, all men are assholes
but not you, Jerry, not you.
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Jerry’s like aerials
A cat broadcasting all his body parts
but it’s furry furry furry
(After Eileen Myles)
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Just another day, sat on the fence
Resting, sniffing, surveying the border
Yesterdays the same, ever since I was young
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She’s been mopping again and I’m slung—exhausted—
across raspy concrete,
Sun warming fur, evaporating rails of wet foam.
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Oh seal pup, oh orange otter –
Why do you look like a cloud,
A tawny summer sand hopper.
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Never fear Jerry dear, Christmas is near, I wonder oh what you will wear
You’re my favourite cat in hat, how’s that you not so fat cat
Please don’t go near Gareth Morgan, he’ll scare you with his vocal I love birds organ
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thys jerrye boye he’m flex hys toes
an crinkle up hys little noes
for wen ye pet, hys purr doth groe
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Jerry surveys new planets, his cosy habitat
hardly whipped by Martian winds. Population:
one. This better, handsomer Matt Damon.
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Oh white, furred, cuddle-slug
nestled in your woollen hollow.
Murdering birds is for tomorrow.
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Sometimes I feel as though I’m simply a lump
And then I think
Jerry’s a lump, so it can’t be that bad
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jerry
cat
soft
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Brave Jerry
A gift of trust
Soft belly revealed
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I’ve recently learned the word “gerrymandering”
And now every time I hear it,
I think of you, Jerry.
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Jerry Jerry climbed up the tree, Jerry Jerry fell down the tree/
He landed in a space capsule, he flew away/
Bye bye Jerry
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Snuggle up, blast off…
While we’re lying in the sun.
Oh and Jerry that’s the spot.
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Jerry is twelve feet tall, which is big for a cat,
and carries Ashleigh to work everyday then
takes a nap by the heater
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To look at Jerry is to see what it is to be at home
in a body, in a spaceship
in which he has never once dreamed of taking off
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Jerry – where do you think Ashleigh goes, when she goes?
Or DO you think of Ashleigh? Just how zen ARE cats?
Your impassive face when Ashleigh returns: the takeaway order duly delivered.
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From Big Red and Beck
To Jerry and more, We can
Tolerate this again
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ASTROPUSSY:
Kerrrr. Kiiiiii. Kerrrr. Kiiiiii.
Space purring.
Jerry watched earth float away.
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Jerry gets Four Down:
Four Down, eight letters: when a bird explodes in the lounge.
Massacre.
Jerry appreciates performance art on a Thursday morning.
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Terribly busy:
Solves crimes, catches rodents, flings cockroaches.
Bond. Jerry Bond.
Available for freelance work between 1 and 2am only.
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Ballerina slippers, a forest axe
This time a velvet suit
I see you from the shore, Jerry, you’ve marched this earth before.
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Hairy Jerry soft and fat.
Wary Jerry, don’t eat that!
Cheery Jerry wondrous cat.
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You’re killing me here
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Give them to the kids
and hope, no more kid entries…
…Jerry would approve
#haiku
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..but if you limit
the prize to kids, they might cry:
Jerry-mandering!
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Ko Jerry tōku ingoa (My name is Jerry)
Kei te ngenge ahau (I am weary)
Kei te tuahuru ahau (I am hairy)
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Jerry the Wanderer
My love became human
So I fell from the sky
As a cat she named Jerry, the years to while by
As far as I’m aware, there’s no Jerry without Ashleigh, and no Ashleigh without Jerry. I see in these pictures a feline who faithfully orbits you. So I wrote this poem about your souls being inexplicably linked, thinking that somehow even beyond this world you’ll always be together.
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:,)
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cheeks full of cotton candy
squinty little cherub
everybody loves jerry
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Jerry looks out
and sleeps
or maybe he’s only still who knows
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Hahaha
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Jerry, Jerry, quite contrary
Two-tone floof who’s rather hairy
You are a dude most legendary ♥
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Jerry and PussPuss, my vicarious cats
I warm in a sunbeam with you
Now Spooky is a gentle weight on my heart, if not on my pillow
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Inscrutable sage.
Mighty warrior. Jerry:
Clown. Good at sleeping.
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I wish I’d put a full stop after the Jerry as the colon makes it sound like personal criticism.
Sorry Ashleigh sorry Jerry 😦
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Haha!! No, not at all! I didn’t read it that way :)) but anyway – truth be told, he IS a clown.
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J-E-R-R-Y a shrunken astro-helmet guy.
J-E-R-R-Y a bucket-headed broom-speared lie.
Y-R-R-E-J a cat stretch moon curve ends your day.
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Jerry, supine divine feline
Prone grace, the illuminated cat
Stuff paws raised in benediction
A ginger white Halo, beams of fur radiant
Closed eye crescents, contented dreams with rodent themes
I am a cat of grace, of no being
Everything I am comes from me
Leaving empty space behind
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