My Cat Thinks the Rent Is Due Tuesday

My Cat Thinks the Rent Is Due Tuesday I reached down to the cardboard scratcher and rested my hand on her side. She lay on her back and looked up at me with a strange, fixed stare. I asked what she was thinking about. The rent is due Tuesday, she said. It is Friday, I said. No, she said. Tuesday. She has the days wrong in her head and says it out loud, and nobody corrects her.