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From a Short​-​Haired Domestic Housecat

from Dear Hussalonia: Letters from Animals, Mostly Ducks by Hussalonia

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Dear Hussalonia,

What happens to the air at night? Why does it make me want to climb trees, wake the birds, and kiss their silly beaks? I press my nose right up to the screen to get a better smell, but then all I smell is metal.

Occasionally, a cat will make a hole just small enough to slip through, plotting two, maybe three, hours of soft paws on concrete, but getting more than one cat head can account for. Exhilarating I'm sure, but I'd miss the smell of fresh newsprint every Sunday and burnt dust in the fall when the furnace kicks on for the first time.

Instead, I sit so still on this window sill, you'd think I were fake, crystallized by that dangerously charged air like a fossil frozen in amber.

Do the runaways think of their former lives as house cats? Or is that erratic look in their eyes indicative of some greater knowledge we domesticated animals couldn't possibly understand?

Signed,
a house cat

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from Dear Hussalonia: Letters from Animals, Mostly Ducks, released February 14, 2010

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Hussalonia Buffalo, New York

Hussalonia is largely the work of a multi-instrumentalist known only as The Hussalonia Founder.

Founded in 1997, Hussalonia is a "pop music cult" and claims to be owned by Nefarico™, a fictional soap company.

The Hussalonia Founder lives and works in Buffalo, New York.
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