Humorous and Insensitive

(Warning, some dark humor. If you are sensitive about death and illness, have recently lost a loved one, this is not a read for you) My cat talks to me in Catinese, an abbreviated form of meows and geese-like chirps – but somehow it does not get in the way of understanding, for we do carry-on so; myself speaking mostly gibberish, our coochy-coo language reserved for pets and infants. When it turns to telepathy I am really astounded, those inquisitive tilts of the head, and mysteriously orchestrated stares, eye-blinks and squinting: like a bartender an hour after last call...and a widow, in search of an all-around repair man, hers of 40 years having gingerly passed on....