#goodbye cat

[detroitlib]

From our stacks: Cover detail from The Goodbye Cat : Seven Cat Stories. Hiro Arikawa. Translated by Philip Gabriel. New York: Berkley, 2023.

[pollosky-in-blue]

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~ to the immortal cat living beside our garage, goodbye

Again and again I am set down like a pen

Soaked dry of its ink and breadth.

Or should I, find a better image

Weave a finer metaphor that could please your depth

I a wine, you a vessel or a cage

Perhaps the latter because I have bled out

From my form into a shallow pool ill at ease to rout

A way away from this fish-bowl, here enough

Circles we have swum, meaningless and wan

Often fast and often slow, here often a laugh

Could echo, heedless the glass.

But enough indeed, it is too high a rung to pass.

Even the very tight-held rag doll

Cannot hold at its limbs when you let it fall

Too many a times from the kitchen stall.

Yes, it was like a dream dear kin

I reached, out of time, to break the surface of sleep

And it is lost forever before it could fully begin

The kind of dream you lose from the inception of clarity

And hope and bit of desire all drugging you down to sin.

- pollosky-in-blue

[defsbeom]

You Are | Kim Yugyeom

[pastelchachki]

im so fucking happy the past two days have been so amazing

[mrvandannsecretannex-blog]

Downwards Spiral

I put the blame of missing food onto my son’s cat! It seems everyone bought it but Peter. I could finally be happy and throw the cat out, but it seems we got caught living up here, by a thief! It seems this won't end well.

[softieheartxo]

I just wanna fall in love.

Soaked in sweat love, falling down a pit with no end love. Aching, grasping, clawing love.

It’s summer and I’m feeling empty without a man to chase.

[2suga-archive]

they keep showing nick and im just praying that cat is still alive

[dyketowne]

My father, everyone.