This is just to say sorry
to the Libraries Board of South Australia
for not returning Thomas McGuane’s, ‘To Skin a Cat’.
It was due 8 March, 1989.

By March I’d fallen in love
and had gone to live in Melbourne.
Completely off my head.
I forgot about the book.

Now, I am not in love
but still in possession of your book.

I would like to send it back but I can’t.
It has become a symbol of me and that girl,
who looked like a cat.

Please find enclosed a cheque for $35.00