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Writer's pictureYours Truly

Cat Got Your Tongue?

Updated: Mar 25, 2021



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⚠️Trigger Warning: The following poem contains subject matter pertaining to suicidal ideation⚠️

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When one cat is dying

the other cats in the household

will sometimes keep their distance

from the dying cat


because they cannot bear

the smell of

death.


I wonder if that’s

why

so many of you

had abandoned me at my

most terminal.


Could you smell the murmur of

death

I wore above my collar bone

like an Eau de Parfum?


Could you smell

the impending suicide?

You couldn’t wait to

put me down—


not for the sake of my

suffering


but


for the sake of yours.


{bad luck}

 

Image Source:

Black cat hissing gif. [image] Available at: https://www.pinterest.ca/pin/386957792976571038/ [Accessed 23 Mar. 2021]

 
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