felidae

On the day when
someone said you walk like a cat
and you became aware
of your body when you walk
stand sit talk dream dance
and every other damn thing
you do with your body
and you wondered what on earth
does walking like a cat mean anyway
and you thought to yourself
I don’t even walk like a cat,
that’s not an especially apt
comparison, dumbass--
still, on that day, despite
all that you know
in the front of your brain
about cats and women and walking,
on that day, the back
of your brain changed,
irrevocably and forever,
and sometimes, to this day,
you wish that, like a cat,
you had many lives
so you could live that day again.