Cute Little Pussies

On this brutally cold Sunday, I’m bundled up with hot chocolate while a kid reads from a cat book. She keeps stopping to shout ’BOM CHICKA WOW WOW!!’ with complete earnestness, and it’s perfectly absurd—something about a tiny person saying something ridiculous just works.

The pussy joke is old. Everyone knows I’m talking about actual cats. They’re cute and soft when they’re small, then they grow into indifferent creatures who barely remember you. That’s the deal.

Hannah’s at Carnival getting wasted, and I’m supposed to be finishing a project I’ve procrastinated on for a year. The muse wasn’t cooperative back then, so I’ve given up explaining it. Today, I needed this instead—the cold outside, the warmth inside, the kid repeating this phrase like it’s the funniest thing alive. It’s absurd. That’s enough.