Discontinuing Dinner: Avoidance
Methods, (Re)defining Cat Food Expediency, and the Role of Ambiguity
in (un)Professional Discourse
These cats don't let me sleep. Why does
it need to be this way? A precision in language cuts both ways, like
a spade or what the seventh grader called it, "a garden
hoe" knowing full well double speak implications and the
pathologic memory of seemingly agent-free class clowns. Cuts the
tools and the reader, we couldn't arrive at precision without smaller
and smaller infinitely unsatisfying delineation of language. This is
the work, so to speak. And so to speak what moves us forward can also
like the classic argument against gun control, it's not the gun that
kills people but who pulls the trigger, an uncertainty between what
is purposefully and what is needlessly complicated within
distinctions motivations get lost, though experience
may be able to dig through the litter box what makes good
"scholarship" proves no difference, Persian or American
tomcat. Generosity not just in how much chicken paste scooped from
the open tin but in value, nutritional and otherwise inedible, unable
to understand if properties of deliciousness, habitual, or demanded
by wery wery cute little furry little fuzzies.
That is to say there are expectations
beyond the sun rising but every morning and it's impossible to sleep
past six and maintain neutral relationships with both animals and the
expectations of animals knowing they are hungry will be hungry
and will continue to sniff as other, objectifying thier relation to
the human ear. Through verbal cues discontinued and rarified impulses
of walking softly never pressing but presence alone delineates
consciousness and an end to dreaming. Big yellow eyes, yowling, or
the little brown one habitually vomiting before the day begins as a
biological function or dysfunctional pet owner relations that yes, we
do have the power but not the motivation. The job of some to get the
others to do the work or in the case of creature with no thumbs a
life or death necessity spurned as motivation, not avoidance of
associative necessity or a lack of affective filters. A leading
ambiguity can lead into generative succession but when the methods
work in the other direction meaning signifies other meanings and we
are lead into the specific conclusions and to reiterate, this is the
necessary work if one is to work against uncertainty towards a
vertical accumulation of capital always at a moment on our way
towards the next.
We're torn between wanting to
communicate with animals, the expectations of the animals, and the
facticity of not having ingested any cat food of the sort. That to
pick up an animals and throw it off the bed will not necessarily
prevent said animal from returning to the scene of instigation and
picking up where it left off. As with ambiguity, that it too can be
equally used and abused much in the same way as perpendicular
cross-talk and it's no wonder we're still hungry or always hungry as
our standards will always be in disagreement so long as questions of
"is it time to eat yet?" are articulated outside of both
the body and the academy. There is not a single shoelace for cats to
wear and have no use for tools and those they do know such as claws
and ears and cute faces are extensions of bodily desires. Ambiguity
hides laziness of thought while precision disallows access, either
due to mismatching discourse community or bioengineered apple-ness
looks good tastes like nothing. That the scholar is able to make
these distinctions between baloney and insight just as the poet
delineates between genre fed cliche and experienced reality. Cats do
not differentiate between dinner and breakfast but are equally
persistent in both and know despite cat food breath and smallness of
stature the power of presence and what engagement entails. There is
just as much ambiguity in precision but it operates on a different
unit dependent solely on when you ate last. To sleep well is to build
a machine to feed these animals at a specific time and they make
them, I've seen them, and I'm going back to sleep now.