Poem for Zoey 💚

Dear cat friends and lovers.

Poem for Zoey .

 I will enrage the gods to avenge all the pain they have inflicted upon you. A cruel boycott was imposed upon my lair—by those hateful figures who pass me by like scorpions filled with rage: police officers, judges, and politicians reeking of decay and inhumanity. A boycott of my soul that prevented love from drawing close enough to be felt truly and precisely. I had invited you, Zoey, and lured you with a plastic bottle filled with children’s chocolate bars; I swore to you I would vex the gods by calling them—for every bar you ate—again and again from a blocked number, to exact retribution for all the suffering they had caused you. You promised to visit me; you fought your battles and kept your word, Zoey: You stepped inside, looked at me with your calm, gentle eyes—eyes holding an incomparable spark and a rare beauty—, claimed your trophy, and signaled through your dance that I should keep my word and enrage the gods to avenge all the pain they have inflicted upon you.

Best wishes

Fouad. Suleiman 💚