Clockwise Cats: The Prequel

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Clockwise Cats: The Prequel Alison Ross 2016 All Rights Reserved Alison Ross Published by Feline and Nothingness Press
Clockwise Cats: by Alison Ross The Prequel Cats inhabit their own time and space continuum - that is to say, they transcend time and space as we know them. The clockwise cat, therefore, is “wise” to clocks - she knows they exist as an attempt to “capture” something irritatingly abstract and elusive. The clockwise cat, abstract and elusive herself, and being suspicious of clocks, can therefore live as she wishes - typically in a counter-clockwise - i.e., timeless - fashion. Indeed, most of us would choose to reincarnate into feline form if offered the option; we covet cats' ability to conquer the clock, as it were, because our lives are so mired in these maddening measurements of time, even as we are fully vigilant of the concept as pure contrivance. To that end, I present a chapbook of time-themed verse. Each poem, in some way, whether explicitly or implicitly, touches on time as an enigmatic construct as opposed to an orthodox, fixed and solid entity. Some poems seem to mock clocks and time, whereas others are concerned with the concept only tangentially, and yet their aim is patent: demolish all clocks, and emancipate
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Page 7 and 8: A Brief History of the Deconstructi
Page 9 and 10: Anachronistic anarchist The anachro
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Page 15 and 16: Buddhaliciously Blasphemous The Bud
Page 17 and 18: Eternity found My days have been in
Page 19: Salvador Dalai Lama Salvador Dalai
Page 22 and 23: A cat stalks through the voluptuous
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Page 26 and 27: Coma The clocks weep an ennui of te
Page 28 and 29: The Clockwise Cat The clockwise cat
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