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from see you in hell—suckersCatherine PaquetteCuriosity killed the cat, she said as she kills the cat. The cat is always being killed. She nodded. “That was not very nice.” Her eyes whelm over with, first—relief, then—guilt. Guilt, she thought to think, what an odd thing—as though she should feel guilty for desire-expression*. But what if the desire is guilt and what if this whole lot of nothing to make me bad. Oh thoughts plague her, like the cat, like the plague. A cholera of sorts, her choleric mind. A day-in day-out sort-of-thing, these little guilts: something always to be eaten by. Like this, crunch that, because where is the priest when you need him? She goes to bed and feels guilty for thinking the thoughts she thinks that her thought-bubbles are cholera, oh brain-bubbles burst! * rejoice in hyphenations Catherine Paquette Read Bio Author Discusses Poems |
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