Mackenzie Rose's Reading of "Nine Lives: A Question"

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academics 1:06 Mackenzie Rose's Reading of "Nine Lives: A Question"

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Jasmine Rorrer

11 Jul 2024 216

Mackenzie Rose is working towards her completion in the Individualized Interdisciplinary PhD program.

Nine lives, a question. To consider everyone's attendance during my incident, the wearsabouts of my two feeline housemates come into question. Perhaps pushed to the basement, by my shrieks and pleas, they quietly braced their quivering frames against one another. Perhaps drawn by the smell of fresh blood, they paced hungrily along the edge of the dog chewed rug. Perhaps, sitting patiently, by the kitchen, they conjured a spell, like the mystic familiars of their ancestry, Whiskers touching, eyes midnight with dark magic. They forged a new life, a cat life, one of their nine lives, and blessed it onto my broken body. Perhaps I have the spirited grace and luck of feeline fortitude, by which death is so easily alluded. Perhaps I shouldn't question it, because curiosity killed the cat, you know?

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