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She Says Her Cat is in Love with Javier Bardem
She tells me she sat up late watching
Being the Ricardos.
That it is better than you would think
which is what everyone says about everything
but the apocalypse.
Throwing one of those scrunchies up in her hair
like trying to contain the mess.
A trick of beauty that she still turns heads.
Says her cat is in love with Javier Bardem.
Woke up out of a dead sleep on the couch
to watch him most attentively.
When she sleeps, she’s out,
she says.
She doesn’t do that for anyone.
I’ve taken to calling her cat Mrs. Bardem
the last few days.
The cat seems to get embarrassed
if cat embarrassment away from the little box
is such a thing.
Throws litter all over the place.
She never did that before.
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About the Author: Ryan Quinn Flanagan is a Canadian-born author residing in Elliot Lake, Ontario, Canada with his wife and many mounds of snow. His work can be found both in print and online in such places as: Evergreen Review, As It Ought To Be Magazine The New York Quarterly, Cultural Weekly, In Between Hangovers, Red Fez, and The Oklahoma Review.
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Image Credit: “One of the “smart set” (1906) Courtesy of The Library of Congress (public domain)
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