The Cat And The Cadillac by Herbert Nehrlich

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The Cat And The Cadillac

A streetwise cat
a trifle fat
in search for food
and pensive mood
crossed Maple Street
with feline feet.
A Cadillac
went on attack
a giant mag
as if to brag
pinned down the cat
and that was that.
The driver saw
a flattened paw
he quickly cursed
and then reversed
sharp talons still
designed to kill
did penetrate
and thus deflate
the big good year
and one could hear
contented purr
from bloody fur
revenge is sweet
not much to eat
but victory
in misery
cad conceited
but defeated
though the cat
now is flat.

Herbert Nehrlich

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***** ********* (4/9/2006 12:50:00 PM)
Interesting use of metaphor Herbert, a triffle catty though! wouldn't you say? lol Thoughts of Meowing with purrrrrrrser in the back of a cadilac one day, are the things that keep this pussy on hot bricks! An amusing tail between the legs poem,10 from Tai, flattened but always springing back, a few lives left to bounce!

Ernestine Northover (4/2/2006 4:13:00 PM)
This is 'catastrophic' Herbert! I'm glad the cat got his revenge, down with all four wheeled car eaters I say. I enjoyed the read very much though, even if it was a bit sad, for the feline. Love Ernestine XXX

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Herbert Nehrlich (04 October 1943 / Germany)