Cat Person

Let me down one cat a time:

the cat that wakes me by sitting on my face the cat that ignores me the cat that pushes vases off of tables the cat that was once magic but now just lies around and gets fat the cat that kills birds out of irritation at their wings and the cat that disappears in the middle of a sentence like a body flung from a bridge while the soul carries on, oblivious, yowling about the goddamn hunter’s moon.