A confession

I hated that cat
Since it tried to steal my breath

It sat on my cot bound chest and inhaled

I told my parents in infant noises
But they ignored me

I made fur-balls
With hair stolen from my mummy’s hairbrush mixed with spit
Planted them in her tea
And daddies porridge
And the babies milk

I laid the blame on the cat as it lay blameless

I combed wounded hedgehogs for fleas to infest the house
I raked the goldfish with sharpened stickle bricks

I whittled my shit into cat-poo shapes
Loaded his boots, her shoes, the handles of luggage
I planted cat shit in the places they courted
And behind the place that they crapped

Yes I suffocated the new baby with a pillow then
Scattered cat hairs in the cot


Purring...