Giovanni Raboni, Dal quaderno di aritmetica del gatto pastrocchio, 2016

One cat plus one cat makes two cats

one cat minus one cat one cat makes a cat that has gone away

let’s hope that it will come back soon

that it does not get lost

that it does not get hurt

that on the street it is careful to cross

that it finds on the roofs the way back

that it comes back home before evening

with its beautiful tail

straight as a drawn tail.