“Why? Why? Why? Why?”

“Why? Why? Why? Why?”

She has been crying for almost a day now, walking around and around the building, crying at every door. If she’s lucky, they just shoo her away… If not, she gets kicked for her insolence.

“Why? Why? Why? Why?...”

Their ears, accustomed to their own blaring din of loud laughter, talk and more talk, music and ringing phone, are hurt by her insistent pleas… “Why? Why? Why? Why?...”

They can’t even pause in their rush of eating more, using more, taking more to clean up the “mess” that they say she makes, leave alone feel her pain… “Why? Why? Why? Why?...”

She barely cares for food and slept restlessly for a while in the late afternoon. But even as she slept she moaned “Why? Why? Why? Why?...”

There’s no place for her in this haven…

“Why? Why? Why? Why?”

She’s just a stray…

“Why? Why? Why? Why?”

So they dumped her kittens in the garbage…