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