alone this afternoon
feeling social and
simultaneously anti-social,
but not the least bit
contradictory.
One of my cats watches,
has a bath, waits for me.
With all this technology,
perhaps loneliness
will go the way
of the rotary phone,
I say to the cat.
He looks up briefly, then goes
back to licking his own feet.
When I set down my device
he jumps into my lap,
walks in two circles
and lays down. He is warm
and my friend, so I am happy.
We sit together as I think
about Ancient Egyptians
domesticating cats
4000 years ago,
wondering if they thought
they'd rendered loneliness
obsolete.
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