Distant Epilogue from Cattie! by Mattie Konig

Mammal!
How’s it going today?
How’s your gut health, still got your teeth?

Mezzering on taupoid times as deathguards smear their scozzy best
Seems like the magpies dig your erstwhile denarii

Mammal!
Did you make it to gray?
Did you retain your youthful gleam?

Flitting past the typhoid tykes and letting nature do the rest
Neo-Dumnonia is not able-bodied

Who are you?
(I am happy because everyone loves me)
Who are you now?
(a relationship to things unseen)

What are you?
(there’s a football fellow you know his name)
What are you now?
(and I’m always very glad to see you wave)

A talking point for the gutter press
A ragdoll throw toy to shove and grope
A song and dance for the party guests
A vector to snap your mother’s bones
A benny tied to a rotten tree
A cymbal monkey that hops and hops
A knowing nod to a round Eileen
A “no” in D sharp that never stops
A degen troon with a broken brain
A casualty of this broken age
A child trapped forever in patterns of yearning so tangled and tight there’s no chance of escape

There is still time left
And if you should die before you wake
I won’t forget you
There is still a chance
That if you should wake before you die
You will be all right

There is still time left
And if you should die before you wake
I won’t forget you
There is still a chance
That if you should wake before you die
You will be all right

And all the vacuum shells
Do more than simply observe
They travel far beyond
Best feeling in the world

Letting in the looping lines that link a life to other realms
Your heart is home, now go enjoy your isekai

And hey, you made it through
Betrothed to auweyuya
In timeless flashing lights
You saw a way to be

And hey, you felt like you
Bequeathed to blissful self-love
In endless kitten nights
I was your Cattie

• Experimental
• electronica
• neo-psychedelia
• progressive
• psychedelic
• United Kingdom