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  The Cat
by Robert Wells

When you called me that Sunday at 8:02pm
and it took you 17 minutes and 12 seconds
to tell me that you didn't think you loved me
as much as you did six months ago, I didn't think
about time I had wasted. I didn't even cry until I thought about our
cat -- how she'd never sleep between us, purring like a cell phone on
vibrate.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Robert Wells is a poet, journalist and social activist. He was the editor-in-chief of the oldest student-run lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, intersex and queer-affirming publication in the U.S. for three years, which publishes an annual art and literary issue. He has been published in the U.S. and The Netherlands and has studied under
Pulitzer Prize winning poet Natasha Trethewey. He is currently an undergraduate student at The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.