Many names

These are the names I call my cat:

• Dixon
• Dixie
• Dix
• Cat
• Kitty
• Kitty Face
• Kitty Butt
• Dixie Face
• Dixie Butt
• Butter Bean
• Butt Bean
• Butt Face
• Kiska (from the Russian киска, meaning “kitty”)
• Kiska Face
• Kiska Butt
• Butt
• Bunny
• Bunny Butt
• Zayats (from the Russian заяц, meaning “hare” or “rabbit”)
• Zai

This list has been seven years in the making.

[…]
But above and beyond there’s still one name left over,
And that is the name that you never will guess;
The name that no human research can discover–
But THE CAT HIMSELF KNOWS, and will never confess.
When you notice a cat in profound meditation,
The reason, I tell you, is always the same:
His mind is engaged in a rapt contemplation
Of the thought, of the thought, of the thought of his name:
His ineffable effable
Effanineffable
Deep and inscrutable singular Name.