{"id":44,"date":"2024-06-09T19:36:02","date_gmt":"2024-06-09T19:36:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jessesalu.com\/?p=44"},"modified":"2024-06-10T00:54:26","modified_gmt":"2024-06-10T00:54:26","slug":"the-merchants-cat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jessesalu.com\/index.php\/2024\/06\/09\/the-merchants-cat\/","title":{"rendered":"The Merchant&#8217;s Cat"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"681\" src=\"https:\/\/jessesalu.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/merchants-cat-1024x681.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-84\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jessesalu.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/merchants-cat-1024x681.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/jessesalu.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/merchants-cat-300x200.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/jessesalu.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/merchants-cat-768x511.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/jessesalu.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/merchants-cat.jpeg 1400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-ast-global-color-0-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-1 wp-block-paragraph\">6 am, the merchant wakes up,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-ast-global-color-0-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-2 wp-block-paragraph\">Small cabin covered by thickets,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-ast-global-color-0-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-3 wp-block-paragraph\">On the dead end of forest Angea<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-ast-global-color-0-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-4 wp-block-paragraph\">&#8212;&#8212;-<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-5 wp-block-paragraph\">He Tosses and turns in his bed,&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-6 wp-block-paragraph\">Squeaky sound it produces<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-7 wp-block-paragraph\">Timber gasping for breath<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-8 wp-block-paragraph\">Squinted eyes, he checks his watch.&nbsp;<br>&#8212;&#8212;-<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-ast-global-color-0-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-9 wp-block-paragraph\">2 minutes remaining to jump out of his bed<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-ast-global-color-0-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-10 wp-block-paragraph\">Suspended by two sisal shoals,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-ast-global-color-0-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-11 wp-block-paragraph\">One corner of the roof to another.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-ast-global-color-0-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-12 wp-block-paragraph\">The ceiling is halfway in,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-ast-global-color-0-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-13 wp-block-paragraph\">Sagging in and periodically producing an eerie sound,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-ast-global-color-0-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-14 wp-block-paragraph\">Swinging right as the wind blows hither,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-ast-global-color-0-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-15 wp-block-paragraph\">And left when thither.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-ast-global-color-0-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-16 wp-block-paragraph\">&#8212;&#8212;-<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-17 wp-block-paragraph\">Reminding the merchant, apart from rent being due.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-18 wp-block-paragraph\">His ceiling was overdue for repair.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-19 wp-block-paragraph\">And just like his cabin,&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-20 wp-block-paragraph\">He thought his life was in shambles.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-21 wp-block-paragraph\">He lays with his back facing the roof,&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-22 wp-block-paragraph\">&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-ast-global-color-0-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-23 wp-block-paragraph\">He notices cobwebs and a small hole&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-ast-global-color-0-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-24 wp-block-paragraph\">That allowed only two lucky rays of sunlight&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-ast-global-color-0-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-25 wp-block-paragraph\">He thought of how he would make a sale,&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-ast-global-color-0-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-26 wp-block-paragraph\">Before the sun goes down<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-ast-global-color-0-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-27 wp-block-paragraph\">Or he would come back to a crumbling celing,&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-ast-global-color-0-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-28 wp-block-paragraph\">And will have nothing to feed his cat.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-ast-global-color-0-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-29 wp-block-paragraph\">&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;-<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-30 wp-block-paragraph\">The calendar on 13th August 1457<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-31 wp-block-paragraph\">Let it be a lucky day,&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-32 wp-block-paragraph\">He muttered silently.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-33 wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-34 wp-block-paragraph\">&#8212;&#8211;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-ast-global-color-0-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-35 wp-block-paragraph\">\u201813th is never a lucky day in Babylon\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-ast-global-color-0-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-36 wp-block-paragraph\">The wife interrupted\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-ast-global-color-0-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-37 wp-block-paragraph\">Tea awaits for breakfast&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-ast-global-color-0-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-38 wp-block-paragraph\">And 20 kilos of Gold to sell<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-ast-global-color-0-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-39 wp-block-paragraph\">&#8212;&#8212;-<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-40 wp-block-paragraph\"><em>If we don\u2019t get lucky today.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-41 wp-block-paragraph\"><em>She continued<\/em>&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-42 wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Emperor Michaelson though sent the army<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-43 wp-block-paragraph\"><em>To slay those who owe him more than fifty denaris<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-44 wp-block-paragraph\"><em>And we owe him hundred and twenty.&nbsp;<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-45 wp-block-paragraph\">&#8212;&#8211;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-ast-global-color-0-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-46 wp-block-paragraph\">The Merchant&#8217;s cat comes and wobbles its tail&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-ast-global-color-0-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-47 wp-block-paragraph\">And jumps on his shoulders, <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-ast-global-color-0-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-48 wp-block-paragraph\">It meows to wake him up.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-ast-global-color-0-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-49 wp-block-paragraph\">He jumps off bed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-ast-global-color-0-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-50 wp-block-paragraph\">His footsteps Echoing through the small cabin.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-ast-global-color-0-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-51 wp-block-paragraph\">&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-52 wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThe market, what perceiveth of it today?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-53 wp-block-paragraph\">He rings his friend on a phone booth,&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-54 wp-block-paragraph\">That hung on the left side, almost touching the floor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-55 wp-block-paragraph\">And swinging like a pendulum<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-ast-global-color-0-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-56 wp-block-paragraph\">&#8212;&#8211;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-ast-global-color-0-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-57 wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cBuyers, not many. Sellers unlimited in number.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-ast-global-color-0-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-58 wp-block-paragraph\">Comest though with a strategy?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-ast-global-color-0-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-59 wp-block-paragraph\">Today Oust win not without it.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-ast-global-color-0-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-60 wp-block-paragraph\">His friend groans<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-ast-global-color-0-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-61 wp-block-paragraph\">&#8212;&#8211;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-62 wp-block-paragraph\">Thanks to you my learned friend.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-63 wp-block-paragraph\">He hung up,&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-64 wp-block-paragraph\">Wondering how he could make a grand sale,&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-65 wp-block-paragraph\">To offset of all his debts.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-66 wp-block-paragraph\">Impossible!<br><br>He resolved he would stay in the house<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-ast-global-color-0-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-67 wp-block-paragraph\">For five days now he went and not made a sale.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-ast-global-color-0-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-68 wp-block-paragraph\">The merchant&#8217;s cat beckoned,&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-ast-global-color-0-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-69 wp-block-paragraph\">Wagging its tail as it led the man out of the house.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-ast-global-color-0-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-70 wp-block-paragraph\">Thank you my cat, I\u2019ll try one more time&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-ast-global-color-0-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-71 wp-block-paragraph\">This time I\u2019ll let you go with me .&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-ast-global-color-0-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-72 wp-block-paragraph\">\u2018Good omen, you may bring today.\u2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-ast-global-color-0-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-73 wp-block-paragraph\">He muttered&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-ast-global-color-0-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-74 wp-block-paragraph\">\u2014&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-ast-global-color-0-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-75 wp-block-paragraph\">&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8211;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-76 wp-block-paragraph\">The Richest man in Babylon wakes up,&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-77 wp-block-paragraph\">Stares at his magnificent ceiling.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-78 wp-block-paragraph\">Full of Gold and allowing zero rays of sunshine<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-79 wp-block-paragraph\">Perhaps we need a new roof.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-80 wp-block-paragraph\">He whispers to his wife<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-81 wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cI\u2019ll go out and buy gold from the market .\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-82 wp-block-paragraph\">&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;-<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-ast-global-color-0-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-83 wp-block-paragraph\">He left for the market with his two majestic horses,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-ast-global-color-0-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-84 wp-block-paragraph\">And hundreds of soldiers on horsebacks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-ast-global-color-0-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-85 wp-block-paragraph\">Paving the way and pushing aside sellers and beggars,&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-ast-global-color-0-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-86 wp-block-paragraph\">Who lined up at  the front gate&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-ast-global-color-0-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-87 wp-block-paragraph\">Of his magnificent palace, that stood at the center of forest Angea.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-ast-global-color-0-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-88 wp-block-paragraph\">&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;-<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-89 wp-block-paragraph\">This market is just the same,&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-90 wp-block-paragraph\">No one would ever buy from us.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-91 wp-block-paragraph\">Too many sellers and only one man to buy Gold.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-92 wp-block-paragraph\">The merchant thought as he took his cat<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-93 wp-block-paragraph\">And placed him on his shoulders.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-94 wp-block-paragraph\">Watching the king&#8217;s chariots leave the Palace, <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-95 wp-block-paragraph\">Some people coming to see the King&#8217;s chariots,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-96 wp-block-paragraph\">But most standing outside sell him their gold,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-ast-global-color-0-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-97 wp-block-paragraph\">&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;-<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-98 wp-block-paragraph\">Whips can be heard as soldiers charge the horses  to speed,&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-99 wp-block-paragraph\">And wails as some of them lash the sellers,&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-100 wp-block-paragraph\">Who tried obstructing the carriage,&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-101 wp-block-paragraph\">Trying to show the king they had the gold he needed.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-102 wp-block-paragraph\">&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;-<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-ast-global-color-0-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-103 wp-block-paragraph\">The King suddenly orders the chariots to stop<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-ast-global-color-0-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-104 wp-block-paragraph\">When he spots&nbsp;the merchant,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-ast-global-color-0-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-105 wp-block-paragraph\">Hopelessly carrying kilos of gold on the left,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-ast-global-color-0-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-106 wp-block-paragraph\">And the cat on his shoulder.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-ast-global-color-0-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-107 wp-block-paragraph\">&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-108 wp-block-paragraph\">You valueth the cat as much as gold<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-109 wp-block-paragraph\">I will though buy your gold,&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-110 wp-block-paragraph\">And giveth you fifty kilos more,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-111 wp-block-paragraph\">And ten of my best chariots will go with you<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-112 wp-block-paragraph\">To go sell to King Asdak.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-113 wp-block-paragraph\">Who ordereth for one hundred kilos,&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-114 wp-block-paragraph\">Keep thy profits to oneself.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-115 wp-block-paragraph\">He told him and rode back to the palace<br><br>&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-ast-global-color-0-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-116 wp-block-paragraph\">As he went back that evening,&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-ast-global-color-0-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-117 wp-block-paragraph\">The merchant thought of his cat.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-ast-global-color-0-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-118 wp-block-paragraph\">Resilience, determination and grit,&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-ast-global-color-0-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-119 wp-block-paragraph\">Sometimes is what could get you out of bed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-ast-global-color-0-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-120 wp-block-paragraph\">To a lucky day full of serendipity,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-ast-global-color-0-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-121 wp-block-paragraph\">And cover up for the unlucky 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