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Everything I know about love

   
my cat is an asshole    
   
most mornings    
he wails a death wish    
in my sleeping ear    
   
is possessed by Shakespeare    
as he rolls onto his back    
feet in the air    
as if life is an absolute tragedy    
   
makes me carry him    
upstairs every night    
abandoning me at the top step    
then wails that I dare let him go    
   
my cat is an asshole    
   
sits on the edge of the bath    
falls in where fur finds bubbles    
in fury and chaos    
& I towel him down as he expects food    
for the total fucking inconvenience    
   
claws at carpet completely ignoring    
the scratch post we bought him    
or the toys we gave him    
or the bed that looks    
more comfortable    
than mine    
   
my cat is an asshole    
   
but I think of his start to life    
in a bin bag with his brothers    
abused, abandoned, rescued    
underweight, dirty, scorned
   
how he craves love on his terms    
escapes when he’s had enough    
hisses when strangers get close    
never leaves my side    
   
and I sometimes wonder    
if he’s the asshole at all    
or if the world made him    
that way.    
   
   
   
People.    
   
People can be animals, too.
   
 
Written by Northern_Soul
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