Talk.

You used to talk to me.

Sometimes

through chatty tone

sometimes

haughty gesture.

.

You had an approving -ululating -rolling purr

an exasperated nip

and a pert swipe of paw.

You would refuse canned swill outright - not

that you'd rebel

just don disapproval

so unnervingly papal

catholic guilt would mitosis

and immediately go viral viral viral viral viral viral viral.

You'd hunch

glare

will goop to transform

till annihilation failing you'd hurrumph

     about turn

stretch-dancer-back each disgusted hind paw

                                                            flick

                                       as if shaking dirt

                    and disgust from your claws.