I know he is out there

Yellow-eyed demon

He’s been waiting for me

Counting the hours

Preparing himself

… hiding …

Until just the right moment …

THUMP!!

The sound of flesh

Contacting with metal

“Foul creature!” I shout

Raising my fist

I had been so sure

He couldn’t have come from

… nowhere …

A flash of tiger stripes

Too late

He is gone

“That blasted cat

Footprinted my car again!”

January 21, 1988