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Lapcat

from Petting and Being a Pet
Restless Night
…Have you ever felt forlorn
looking at a cat in someone else’s lap, wishing
the cat was you? Look how an animal is passed
from lap to lap in a room, so many wishing
to hold it. We wish to be in the vast
caress…

— Molly Peacock, Cornucopia (Norton, 2002)

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