he turned around and found he had an audience in the kitchen

                                                                  he was cuttingup veggies for homemade chicken soup second day of preparation refrigerated overnight skimmed fat off the top finished deboning what the heat hadnt

Whasup gang

four cats

          three female torties blackbrown marbled october shy leftie the neutered Tom  bomber  an orange tabby like real feral Robert his old man

Whasup

he actually thought one day one would say

                                             they remained mute communicated with their eyes big cat eyes  watching

Excuse me

he set the large pot on the electric range dialedup a threeanahalf a long slow heatmarinating heat that would provide dinner round sixthirty seven would have a couple everything bagels on the side split and toasted

he stepped back to the sinkleaned against it

                                               Whasup

they were stoic

unmoved

statuesque

made him think of Gizas Sphinx

Well Ill tellya

                Is time to pee is time to tap a kidney

    they didnt appreciate the rhyme

he steppedthey fledbats out of Hell like they were next in the pot

                                                                    obviously

they didnt understand English

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