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Caption: THE
PIZZA CAT a little word studio story
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Caption: Words by Melissa Marni
Inspired from Art by Gemma Correll
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Caption: The rumors are true. The Pizza Cat is real.
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Caption: How do I know, you might ask, skeptical gleam in your eye, that such a creature exists? Have I seen this mystical, mozzarellical thing and lived to tell the tale? Did I run into one, many moons ago, stumbling out from a bar in those precarious, late hours when darkness bleaches light and street lamps barely matter except to cast strange shadows on the sidewalk below one’s knees?
Caption: And there, standing in the cottony fuzz of daybreak, with tequila-soaked tongue and IPA-imbued hair, did I first see its grey, striped tail, its pepperoni coat, its crust of a neck sticking out from the scraggly fur by its ears? Was it in this moment that I caught a first glint of the silver fork most Pizza Cats carry (or so I've heard) like a three-pronged sword to combat any who try to take a bite?
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Caption: And on this same night, feeling uncharacteristically bold and unafraid, did I then reach out and pet its cheesy back, yelling toward the dawning sky, “Aha, you fools! Here’s the proof! The Pizza Cat is alive! Tonight I’ve found one for myself and years later, I pledge to tell a person who’ll really listen that the Pizza Cat lives on!”
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Caption: Is that how it happened for me and how I’ve come to deliver the truth to you today?
Caption: Well, no.
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Caption: Let me set the record straight on one point before we move forward or backward or in any other direction that seems better than the one we’re traveling in right now: I’ve never seen a Pizza Cat and I probably never will.
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Caption: I’m not ashamed to tell you this Pizza Cat-less truth. The Pizza Cat is a member of the feline-ius rare-ius species (I’d image), as uncommon as a toe ring on a toeless, tone-deaf sloth or a flowering summer plant of Mezaluska that blooms only on a winter’s day …
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Caption: (I could go on with the examples but by now you should get the point and if you don’t, you should at least see the point hovering before your eyes—it might be colored green but it also might be a sort of golden-brownish blue—and you should be readying your right hand, or the left if that’s what you prefer, to catch the point when it draws near to your nose, close enough to grab.)
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