The Black Cat

The black cat is a  horror tale written by well-known American writer Edgar Allan Poe.

It tells the story of a man who finds a cat and takes it home. As time goes by the man noticed his wife was much more interested on the cat than on him and then he kills the cat.

This is one of the most famous American story and has been taken to stage and to movies.

If you want to read the rest of the story click here.

Here I present my version of the story in a poem I wrote some time ago. Have fun.

The Black Seven by Flávio Martins

 

Love, money, prison, crime

Family and friends were all there

Wealth, richness, all the time

the beginning of my nightmare

Cause wine is pool for evil, all

A tamed cat behind the door

A jealous husband, a loved wife

Brings up the death, love no more

A hollowed eye was taken out

and evil is done, that’s my role

destroy the animal, now I shout

my fate I feel the gallows pole

fire, wind, death, destruction

for suffering has no name

a cat, a man, ablaze, emotion

now poor and rich are all the same

the pub and friends and fun and beer

an eye, a cat,  a mark between

a host, a wife, a feeling, fear

an axe, a cellar, an assassin

I cry in pain, death, perverseness

I killed, Oh, sin!, I’ve lost my life

A man once rich, now rot in loneliness

you now lay dead, my dearest wife

Oh cat! the witch, perverse: I felt

you built a bridge for my mistake

I killed, I died, in prison I melt

I suffer, I cry, my life you take!

 

 

Glossary

 

Wealth – richness, to be rich  –  pool –  swimming place

tamed – domesticated  –  hollowed  – empty, with nothing inside

gallows – a place for killing people like Tiradentes

ablaze – in fire  –  axe – a tool to cut trees

cellar – the bottom room under the house

Sin – bad things people do  –  rot  – decay, to decompose

witch – a woman with magic powers

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