There are other species, like the cats of this poem, that shares with us this planet and have to witness -or even bear- our despicable actions. I have often wondered what they think -if they think - and at times I try to answer this question.

Russell Hemmell is a statistician and social
scientist from the U.K, passionate about astrophysics and speculative
fiction. Recent publications: Gone Lawn, Not One of Us, SQ Mag, and
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In a world that has never
changed, human victims lie at the doorstep of our failing cultures, but
slender-boned Singapura cats walk free
impassible like Epicurean gods.

Heading backwards
like everybody else -eyes closed, absent
mind- I count missteps like
prayer's beads, silky between my fingers, offering the ever-serene felines
splinters of a vanishing world.