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