Are those plates the plates you
use to feed the outside cats, grampa?
Yes they are Youre very observant baby Why
Well . . . you’re feeding us off
the same plates.
I am Ive been eatin off the same plates since
bigfoot first shook a leg better than five years ago
Do you have an issue eating off the
same plates as the cats
Aren’t they dirty?
The plates
Yes. You’re feeding the cats off
the plates then you’re putting our food on them and feeding us.
You prefer not to eat off those
plates
Well . . . the cats ate off them.
So youre better than a cat so I understand
I didn’t say that.
This is your opportunity What are you saying
They’re cats.
Yes They are cats
They’re cats, they should have their
own bowls; our dog has her own bowl.
How nice I dont align plates and bowls or distinguish between
theirs and minetheres little distinct for me between their animalism and minetheir
hunger and mine We gotta eatit aint like
Im pulling the plate out from under their mouths then putting our food on
them I do wash the dishes
You do.
Observant I do
But the cats ate off them.
And I eat off themand if guests visit
they eat off them
Are you better than a catit seems
you think you are
I meanthey should have their own
bowls or plates, is what I mean.
They dothey eat off the plates I
eat off of
Sorry I shouldnt end a sentence
with a preposition
What?
Nevermind Youre only eightIm sure youll get into
sentence structure laterI hope youll get into structuring later Do you
practice handwriting at school on lined paper
primer paper
Huh?
Not everything you do is on the computer
is itYour identity
I don’t understand, grampa.
You have interaction between other
studentsyou for lack of a better wordnot
that theres a better word compete against your classmates in real timeFlash
cards Arithmetic Addition SubtractionI dont imagine at eight
youre into multiplication and division Spelling
Bees
I don’t know what you’re talking
about, grampa. We have computers at school and I do my homework on a laptop at
home.
You have a laptopJaysus
We get them through the school.
We have to be very careful with them. They are our responsibility.
At last responsibility
However none of this effaces erasesya understand
I understand what erase means.
Good
However none of this effaces your
evident concern of eating off plates cats eat off of
I think theyre dirty.
Despite me washing themwhats the
difference between cats eating off a plate and a homeless person I may have
invited into have a bite to eatyour great grandma used to feed men vets who
were hungry and who did a little workcut a lawn for a meal
Those were people though.
Street people Susceptible to disease or illness off the streetfrom
out of doors No real difference between them and feral cats is there
Lemme put it to you this way Were all animals I dont make distinction between us You
I suppose I do.
I suppose then you suppose youre
better than an animal And if you think youre better than an animal youll think youre better than another person then other people When youre not That thinking only leads to terrible troubles whenever its been assumed
Are you hungry this evening
I am. I’m looking forward to
dinner.
Dinner will be served on plates that
my feral cats have eaten off for at least five years
Still hungry
afternoon, Reggae
Friday, 6 7. 18
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