THE COLOR BLACK

She pleasured herself
with a Kool cigarette
and stared.

The beautiful black cat
batted the door
open and closed.
The effect was the long meow
of a weighted door
on untreated hinges.
The door meowed
and the cat meowed back.
This made her giggle.

She turned away to see
from the opened window
A handsome black man
on the street below.
He was being battered
by his bellicose bullies.
She shut the shutters.
She shut the blinds.

She turned back to the cat.
It was gone.