HelloKitty

Stacia Turner
Nov 1 · 2 min read

Curiosity killed the cat.

But cats have 9 lives.

I’m probably on like life 3 or 4 or more…

I don’t like other cats, ima a dog kinda cat. Ima big cat. A fat cat.

Also I am allergic to cats, but I’m working out the aversion to reflections of myself.

And ima new kinda cat, ya dig?

I’m not afraid of the water, I love to swim!

But also I’m part virgin; Both leonine king and earthy maiden characters in tandem within.

Look, I’ll lead us to freedom, lead the hunt so we all get fed, rekindle our intertwining with the land, but there are explicit instructions to help prepare me for the journey and leading the charge:

Let me explore at my leisure, and hunt and prowl in the moonlight, the time at which I consult my best friend and confidant, sky rabbit.

But don’t let me stray and wander too far, because I need the pride.

Pet me until I purr and let me basque in love and affection to my hearts contentment

When I bring a dead mouse to your doorstep, don’t scold and emphasize chagrin

Instead applaud me for doing my intended domestic duty of protecting the den from pestilence.

I’m joking, yes just jest, im no mere kat. Did you hear the tale of the White Lion?

It was prophesized that I should come, but they forgot and nobody protected me from being hunted and plundered among other antiquities…

But never fear, I came from the light.

Will you remember the symbolism of my presence and follow suit with the knowledge of what was foretold?

Stacia Turner

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Queer albinoir non-binary political ecologist, working to analyze and theorize about the mechanics of social, metaphysical, material, and urban dialectics.

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