I was going through some files today and ran across this little poem — a long haiku — I wrote about Idgie. I wrote it three years before Almost Perfect came out, and can see the beginnings of my frustration with people’s attitudes toward special needs pets.
Art is kewl.
I need rain or at
Least I could use a lesson
From a small gray cat
See me, see you, she
Can do neither but still she
Loves more than most do
The gift of vision
Is one she’s never had, yet
She knows more than we
Don’t feel sorry for
Her because she can’t miss what
She never possessed
Instead, admire her
For living beyond our small
Ideas of life