A prophetic Necessary Story. Except the prophet is a cat.
After Isaiah 6
“I am a cat of unclean lips!”
I give the seraph with the live coal my most bellicose stare, the kind I usually save for when King of the Refuse Heap Ahaz perches himself on top of our frog-dumpster at 15 Nahum Lifshitz Street to make a speech. I’m not sure what the thing with the live coal is about, but it doesn’t look good.
“Also,” I point out, “I live among cats of unclean lips. We all eat garbage.”
The seraph keeps flapping its wings and its arms and its legs and gets closer and closer. “Your eyes have beheld the King Lord of Hosts,” she points out. “No other cat has ever been honored in this way.” … continue reading at The Times of Israel
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