If my Snowie was still alive, then a small part of what I've reverentially buried this morning would instead have been deposited into the litterbox, to be removed and unceremoniously dumped in the garbage. In the weeks and months ahead, I would have scooped up my sweet baby boy, my beloved cat Snowball into a succession of garbage bags to be dumped and forgotten. But as it was, I interred a mixture of MeowMix, specially-prepared egg-yoke snack, some tapwater and a few cc's of 0.9% sodium chloride medical solution under one of the most beautiful trees on UUC property, the mixture itself having been lovingly wrapped in two of my shirts, which the mixture loved to nestle upon for its naptimes back when it was in a greater state of chemical disequilibrium. And yes I talked to it, crying a few tears as I was laying my precious, beautiful mixture of MeowMix, specially-prepared egg-yoke snack, some tapwater and a few cc's of 0.9% sodium chloride medical solution, to rest.
Life is beautiful, tragic, and more than a little weird.
-Erik Smits, 13march2017
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