Why Cats Have Nine Babies at a Time

we shouldn’t even ask, as the answer includes lead paint

meltdowns and human allegory

and pencils are poor devices for telling a mammal’s reasons

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we’ve figured it thru art, haven’t you seen? why cats have nine babies at a time?

it is the cumulative cuteness,

look closer, it is the cumulative cuteness is why

because watching a mom Hatch

is painfully why cats have nine babies at a time

and that is tense modesty, birthing,

it must be

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yelping kittens,

they’ve come out and been sterilized by mother’s tongue, co-defined, liked and checked for pulse,

why cats have nine babies at a time

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because some of them seem to pre-disperse, being that little

it’s so hard to stick around