the inheritance

she left everything 

to her cat.
it wasn't much, 

but enough
to make her children

want to kill
the cat, 

all nine lives at once.
the cat lived

for years in comfort,

on pillows of silk,

dining on

sardines

and buttermilk.

it never really cared

about its wealth.

it was a just a cat.
but the will

said so much else
about who had died

and who

was left behind.