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Clockwise Cat Strikes Back

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like<br />

Orson Welles<br />

in<br />

Touch of Evil)<br />

commands,<br />

“When I say go,<br />

rush<br />

down<br />

the<br />

stairs,<br />

scurry to the exit like a scared rat running from a big fat cat<br />

and<br />

leap<br />

into<br />

the<br />

black<br />

abyss<br />

outside.<br />

“Why?”<br />

“Because you’re a character in a film noir,” he bellows. “My subhuman creation and my<br />

character, my character, my character,” he chants.<br />

“I don’t understand.”<br />

“I named you Dante,” he roars.<br />

When he brandishes a .45 Magnum and shrieks, “Go,”<br />

I<br />

descend<br />

into<br />

the<br />

Inferno<br />

below,<br />

rush across a swath of light, a tiny runway in the film noir,<br />

and almost reach the exit,<br />

almost reach the exit,<br />

almost reach the exit<br />

&<br />

the black<br />

abyss<br />

outside,<br />

when

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