Tread carefully, Cheezman. Tread carefully. Remind yourself of the mandate in Matthew chapter 7: “Judge not, that ye be not judged.” And remember that you are dealing with real people and not cartoon characters or Kardashians. Part of my job as Poet of the Paranormal (Y’all like that? I just made it up, but I think I’ll keep it.) is to lampoon, yes, and we do live in a bizarro world, after all. Absurdity of absurdity, all is absurdity! It’s just so easy to make fun. It’s also healthy; there are so many things, if I, if you, couldn’t laugh at them, they’d break our hearts and our spirits. They’d drive us mad.
Mad.Yeah. That’s the thing to remember. We might be dealing with a case of mental illness. Or hell, even if it’s just a case of self-delusion or extreme playacting, who am I to condemn what someone else does to help her get through this crazy life? I want to be kind (unless we’re talking about Kardashians, in which case I dunnae care a whit) or at the least I don’t want to cause hurt. Thus, while my first inclination, I admit, is to write off this young woman, who claims that she is not a human but a CAT, as cat-shit crazy, I will refrain. There are people who claim to be all manner of animals or mythological creatures. Maybe they’re ALL nuts. But watching the news sometimes (or having to hear about the Kardashians), I can almost understand why someone would want to be something OTHER than human.