[Dramatis Personae PLUTO BLACK CAT FEATHERS VENUS BLACK MOON LILITH ENKI Scene: Outer Space; The Deep Atlantic Ocean] [ACT I] [Scene I. At Some Swanky Bar in Outer Space. The Front Bar.] Enter PLUTO counterclockwise, alone, and approaches BLACK CAT. PLUTO !Uoy s’ti BLACK CAT What? PLUTO !Otulp, em s’ti BLACK CAT [Aside to herself]Continue reading “The Figure Eight”
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A Black Cat’s Black Moment
Dear Pluto, My old claws curled up. My pink lips blew bubbles. You knew I had seen too much of the sunlight’s piercing white gleam as I tried to reach to the top of that bright white ocean foam where Feathers lives. I wouldn’t have been able to continue breathing if your backward dark handContinue reading “A Black Cat’s Black Moment”
A Black Cat Moment
That black cat lies flat on its back. Eyes lock a stiff squint, lips gape their last kiss. Hang low crooked claws. Fog crawls a cursed moon in dew of morn break. Was I the last you warned?
A Black Cat Moment
I see. So, now you’re back to toying with alchemy? Because you don’t want to commit to your true feelings you hold for Feathers, you’re storing them at the armory? Is that the new management place where you remanufacture your heart? Is that why you’ve gone missing, running away again? Are your feelings undergoing repair?Continue reading “A Black Cat Moment”
A Black Cat Moment
Dear Spying Soulmate, You stuffed her, didn’t you? Sometime my night, your early morning hour; you did her, didn’t you? Then you finished yourself, stood up, and veered left away from her almost lifeless body. She lay there white-blanketed on your spotless hardwood floor, then turned her neck slowly to my right and gasped forContinue reading “A Black Cat Moment”
A Black Cat Moment
I know I’ve been away several days now. Some know that running motif in my life that as the Black Cat I have lived by and know all too well. That is, the Black Cat returns. No, I’m not referring to that time, that year, when I returned home to my ancestral place, Salem, Massachusetts.Continue reading “A Black Cat Moment”
A Black Cat Moment
The plump, mucky mouse is lost in my maze.
A Black Cat Moment
There’s this traveling bullet, yawing and clawing, slowly spinning to its right. It’s learning to find its fine flight, yet still troubled by where to land.
A Black Cat Moment
There’s this mucky mouse, see, that thinks it’s a rat, see, been playing with me, see, striving to escape, see, waking from its nap, see, soons finds out it’s trapped, see.
A Black Cat Moment
I once ate a rat. It was eight inches long. It took me three years to swallow it whole. I licked its dried up blood off my left paw during its funeral.
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