cat o' 9 tales

“cat o' 9 tales” Like a cat has 9 lives every witch in every Lilith lives to write another day woe bedtide the poor oaf who gets in Her way like Heathcliffe he’ll be tortured from here to kingdom come and back under the Hades rug again where all good sinners and their sordid secrets stray to die another day - roses placed just so by the fresh roadkill let hungry eyed vultures have their wicked way don't you know? the broomstick’s not just for sweeping floors clean each day ... Dorothy has Her way like a cat has 9 lives every witch in every Lilith learns to fly strong again, lives to write Her grimoire spells forever each and every other powerful day Candide Diderot. ‘24 “When, however, one reads of a witch being ducked, of a woman possessed by devils, of a wise woman selling herbs, or even of a very unremarkable man who had a mother, then I think we are on the track of a lost novelist, a suppressed poet, of some mute and inglorious Jane Austen, some Emily Bronte who dashed her brains out on the moor or mopped and mowed about the highways crazed with the torture that her gift had put her to. Indeed, I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.” (Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own) “What fresh hell can this be?” (Dorothy Parker) "If the doorbell rang in her apartment, she would say, 'What fresh hell can this be?' - and it wasn't funny; she meant it." betide. :)