haunted_comedy

True story pt 1

Now you’re in Mexico
And a fat gray cat jumps in through your window
You scream like a bitch
And start recording video

Cat flees into the bedroom
You kitty kitty him but
He just cries for help
From under your rented bed

You think: open the front door wide
give him time
But realize, perhaps,
the whole thing,
is a trap ?
You are meant, somehow, by this gray cat,
to die or be robbed?
Or any one of the10 million things
we see in the eyes of people
We don’t meet

“We don’t meet
on the streets
anymore,”
She said sadly

(She was not in Warsaw last winter
where the sidewalks favored
this American litter)

Back to the cat -
Upon closer inspection-
I find my front door is already unlatched -
So if someone wants me; I am already open wide
I kick the door and stick my head out, just a bit, from the side
I hate to think the way I do
One of those people with 10 million fears in his eyes
But the Mexican courtyard is dark and yellow
And there is no evil in sight

The cat makes a run for it
Galloping past the open door like a fucking idiot
Leaping instead for the same window inlet he came in from

Poor bastard is so fat, I guess, under all his gray hair
He doesn’t make his jump!
I’m laughing laugh my ass off
Which he mistakes , of course, as a battle cry
Million fears in his eyes

He Whimpers off at warp speed
Certain he’s going to die
So I use it to help him

He has buried himself
deep under the rented bed;
Crying out last kitty testaments to all who listen
But nobody wants to hear the cries of this fat , mentally crippled kitten

I pounce on top of the mattress and start howling like a dog
And man that fucking cat runs out so fast
Foggy hologram of head and ass

This time, he finds the good door
And I follow him outside, to reveal to him
My good character

He looks back at me
eyes shimmering green on my iPhone screen

Goodbye, I whisper,
In the dark yellow Mexican courtyard
where no evil has been found

“Luis is the king of this building,” says a voice from high above me
A woman’s voice

True story
Continued
In part 2
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