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[anitaskinney]

From the sounds of it, we are going to put my cat to sleep this weekend. I met her in late 1996/early 1997. The past ten years have been really wonderful.


Advice to Women
(Eunice de Souza)
Keep cats
if you want to learn to cope with
the otherness of lovers.
Otherness is not always neglect --
Cats return to their litter trays
when they need to.
Don't cuss out of the window
at their enemies.
That stare of perpetual surprise
in those great green eyes
will teach you
to die alone.

Wearing the Collar
Charles Bukowski

I live with a lady and four cats
and some days we all get
along.

some days I have trouble with
one of the
cats.

other days I have trouble with
two of the
cats.

other days,
three.

some days I have trouble with
all four of the
cats.

and the
lady:

ten eyes looking at me
as if I was a
dog.






I miss her already.