Harvey and the Collection of Impossible Things

Harvey and the Collection of Impossible Things — page 5
I’m not brave and fierce like my mother but I am hungry And hungry cats do desperate things Today my belly is so empty and angry with hunger that I walk all the way uptown to a dumpster on the city hospital’s north side It is the least dangerous dumpster in the city Partly because it’s far away from the city’s center but mostly because the food you find there is terrible I smell it before I see it Old coffee Jell-O and warm yogurt Chipped green and uglier than ugly I take another smell hoping there’s something in it that’s better than spoiled egg salad Once long ago I ate the remains of an omelet with ham and cheese It was from old Mrs Gianni who normally flicks a dish towel at me but sometimes gives me food The omelet made me picky about eggs It was beyond magnificent magnificent I jump up on the dumpster dumpster and start to poke around for the spoiled egg salad I move aside a crumpled coffee coffee cup and some soggy fried 4