THE CATS WALK ON COLOR SIDEWALKS

I watch the cats
walk on color
sidewalks. The black
cat brings me bad
luck all the time.
The white cat brings
a freshly killed
mouse to my door-
step every day.

The black cat brings
no dead mice, just
more cats because
it is always
pregnant. In heat
the black cat won't
let anyone
sleep. The white cat's

fixed. The black cat
and the white cat
are sisters. They
used to play as
kittens. Now they
fight and claw at
each other as
they fight for mice.

—Luis Cuauhtemoc Berriozabal