Collectors
by Kitty Boots
My friends, Annie and Carly live in a cute little bungalow. It's cluttered, but clean, and they are trying really hard to be a couple. They collect cats. Not just any cats. Their cats are timid Abyssinian cats who have been abandoned because of psychological problems. Being in therapy themselves, Annie and Carly feel best-qualified to care for and rehabilitate these creatures. In the kitchen, Carly points at the cardboard boxes placed above the cabinets, in the space between the ceiling. "They're arboreal, you know," she says. She hand feeds them because they cannot seem to feed themselves.
Chuck and Linda collect Japanese woodblock prints. They are all over the house and it's a fabulous house filled with glass-front bookcases, artifacts and lovely stone-bordered gardens spilling over walkways. I like using their bathroom because when you sit on the toilet you are looking directly at a 200 year-old woodblock print.
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Thanks for taking me to visit these fascinating friends. My favorites are Annie and Carly and their arboreal Abyssinians. *
I like Abyssinian cats and the word arboreal, may I use them for a poem?
Thank you, Matt and Samuel. Of course you may!
cats and woodblocks- a winner combo.
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Thank you, Gary and Rachna.
I would like that too. All of it.*
Thank you, Dianne.
Let's go visiting! *
Thanks, Tim! I'm fortunate to have some very different, eclectic friends who don't mind me "mining" them for material!
Fun flash piece, Kitty. Love the concrete specificity of such as:
"Being in therapy themselves, Annie and Carly feel best-qualified to care for and rehabilitate these creatures." and "I like using their bathroom because when you sit on the toilet you are looking directly at a 200 year-old woodblock print."
Thank you, Ed. I tell it as I see it!
I love cats, but it's too close to halloween to go to the cat house. Now woodblocks...there's some fun. *
Thank you, Daniel.