"uninhabited space" he more or less thought rising from a mattress on the floor
he put his furry feeling tongue under the faucet after a more or less
leisurely walk to the kitchen
"uninhabited space" he said aloud now
kicking an empty swiss cheese wrapper and watching waxy squares fall out of the plastic
pope the cat ran to meet the sound of crinkling and immediately began batting both plastic and paper along tiled kitchen floor
"imagine a tiny church there pope" he said
gesturing towards the twin mounds of her food and water bowls
"and a graveyard there" now pointing to the back door
"a concert hall to rival carengie" sweeping both of his trembling hands
to the little alcove under the fridge
which whirs and grinds all nite
pope was purring loudly and drinking from the fountain
he had just slaked his thirst from
he now paced the confines of his kitchen just mouthing the words
"unihabited space
unihabited space"
kicking debris that pope was too busy drinking to notice
"a vasectomy clinic there
a hot dog stand open 24/7"
pope had stopped drinking and was simply watching him
eyes interested in the movement but not really convinced of this whole enterprise
but he could already envision
the patterns of stained glass in the tiny church
the precise number of moles on the aged check-out clerk
of the corner store mini-mart
the tonnage of flagstone needed to pave the walk
of a modern looking hospital
that would be right next to the fridge
just below the microwave
pope grew bored and started dragging her right paw under
looking and longing for a scrap of swiss or any other forgotten treats
patiently letting him babble on
looking back every now and then
to project some semblance of given attention
it was then he had plucked a butcher's knife from the drying rack
and started approaching pope
lightly squeezing the blade between thumb pointer and middle fingers
and running them up off the top
to get that nice satisfying
*shink* sound
approaching pope
and making that nice
*shink* sound
he was thinking of making the uninhabitable
inhabitable
he said
"pope what are yr last words gonna be?"