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Calico Girl Cats Never Cry

Kyle Hemmings

    So putty cat, they flattened your tail and ran a big ass truck over your legs. In your bedridden existential state, you vow to become the terrorist of all pizza trucks, mousy men, all air gun and trap doors for brains. You’ll find a way to sneak into their bedrooms, piss on their sheets, put crop circles in their rectangular dreams of false gods, valleys of nil rivers, dead dogs. You’ll multiply like a songbird on pellet aphrodisiac. Someday a young girl with a strong streak of Mother Hubbard will take you in. You’ll no longer wish to choke on fish bones, a starling’s claw caught in the trachea, or die in a cat’s noose, hanging in this blind alley called life. She’ll rub your back and sing you nursery rhymes. With ears perked, you’ll follow her everyday to school, protecting her from the mice under her feet. Never once do you tell this hard-earned secret: In the end, we all fall down. No, this mama with hands sleek as fins will love you to death. It’s the best metaphor you’ll ever carry into endless sleep



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