i'm feeling repetitious... it's getting kind of old... all this cat business... and i told myself i'd never be... so... go read something else if yr bored as i am with it all... but...

after last month's trauma with lump removal i was hoping we'd have a smooth patch for a while... but...

this past week she stopped eating and pooping... started hiding and whining and generally acting like a big old sick cat... and... as you know if you've been reading the blug, she'd got herself all constipated... which i'm told is fairly common for old animals of nearly all persuasions... what's that thing by whitman...

As I sit here, sick and grown old,
Not my least burden is that dulness of the years, querilities,
Ungracious glooms, aches, lethargy, constipation, whimpering ennui,
May filter in my daily songs.

that's her... to a c.a.T... (remember ginsberg in that old voices & visions piece?)

well... now... here we are... the cat is too much like me... hates change... wants things just to stay... nice... and i suppose we could do it if we were diamond rings or louis xv armoires or fancy cool silk ties... but this organic living stuff of us needs to keep wiggling and jiggling... always up to some new business... surprise...

so the vet makes it sound easy... just give her this new canned food... just drip an inch of this Laxatone® goop down her gullet... every day for the next ten days... and longer... just...

she don't seem too interested in the food... has eaten barely a mouthful in the past 24 hours... and i apparently lack the manual dexterity to hold cat, pry mouth open, and squeeze out a precise inch of precious goop... so she's had none today...

and then there's her butt... yeah they shaved it... but that's not the worst... they also used some kind of oily substance on what remains of her hindquarter hair... making it all stringy and clingy like a really bad conk... or a tragic perm... i can't brush it out... she can't lick it out... what the...

i will call the vet tomorrow and expose my incompetence... they will probably tell me to give the cat a bath... o yeah... like... i can really do that... but only if you bring yr video camera over to film the hilarity...

and there you have it... grrrrr...

did i mention that the seniors have only one week of class to go? and i've got this pile of... grrrrrr... they're off to prom tonight... but not me boy...

Cats seem to go on the principle that it never does any harm to ask for what you want.

Joseph Wood Krutch

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