What a cat´s life by Greta & Iván Ortega-López

I look at my
Cat lying on the livingroom´s carpet
In a disastrous afternoon
Saying meow to the door looking for
His own things
Jumping to the table laughing about the
Rain an the mice:
Little vans loaded with weapons
Packed and ready to go
Chew chew chew chewing gum & smoking
Lit a thin green cigarettes
Other and other cigarette til’
The flip-top pack is empty
And once again says meow
Meowing as a cat who mews
Lit a thin the afternoon and says
Hey man
Slow down
And don’t care anymore about the mortality of the night
Night same as ever:
Master hand taking away the giant shell
That is Oblivion: THE SKY OF THE NIGHT
Switch on his car
And drives home listening to the radio radio
(Live transmission)
and he hears the word: Abbys
the hole-word that doesn´t scare my cat
he hears Abbys when drives his chocolate
Rolls Royce and drive thru the hill
Abbys word that scares my cat
But just a little
As little as the wage he gets on a xis-days-a-week-job
In a warehouse near to the town´s
Favorite shopping center
The center is
My cat´s favorite part of the bubbaloos
And what about another center?
The middle of the shooting target
Ready
steady
shoot!
Bullseye
even thought a blind guy turns off the bright lights
turns off his spotlight
as he turns off his despair
never run away when the gangsters shoot
but
later
he put some Talking Heads records and get in his own
with the music
he stays and
hum hum
humming
til’ the song
turns into a chewing hum
and since there are two radio radios
on the living
I turn off one
Cause I’m a cheap guy.

(trans. by Iván Ortega López)

Iván Ortega-López (Mexico City, 1990) is t he youngest member in Devrayativa. His poems had been published in Punto en línea, Trifulca, Literal, among others. He is also a painter.