A sand coloured room with a red runner, a banner, a framed portrait, a rope and a plant A white cat with a dark fringe standing on the red runner

Dictator's
Cat

i declared this carpet a country. it has one citizen and he is already in charge.

Standing orders

  1. Ithe door stays open. i am not going through it, but it stays open.
  2. IInobody eats before six. i have written this down twice.
  3. IIIthe vacuum is banned. it has ignored this for four years.
  4. IVthe chair is not for sitting. the chair is for the record.
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one speech a day, six in the evening. the microphone is not plugged into anything and i found that out in year two.

The cat facing a single empty folding chair at the end of the runner
attendance: one chair, and it was early
The cat asleep curled up on the red runner
the country held together without me
The cat standing nose to nose with a closed white door
waiting to be let through my own border

i had a portrait made. the painter got the hair wrong and i signed it off anyway, because sending it back would mean admitting i looked at it.

Enlarged print from the record