In the Beginning In the beginning was cat usher of a new age of doors that curl at the corners gadgets for loving on complicated furniture collapsing into pillows and sheets. His legs preceded him they turned on wireless fingertips looked inside the eyes of first cat as he struggled with beasts large and small barking at our union. The room was cleansed of ghosts and dependents. Everyone welcomed his claws the ones he used to etch my name deep into the walls. Thus was an alphabet of foreign tongues conceived the better to decipher the purring of ideal man.