Le Chat Et La Chatte Poem by Tom Billsborough
Le Chat Et La Chatte
Le chat et la chatte,
L'un a quatre pattes,
L'autre aux talons aguilles.
Tomas et Lucille.
Ils sortent ensemble
Leur appartement mouille
Quel pagaille!
Mais on essaie, on essaie.
Ce n'est pas l'endroit
Ou elle a perdu son âme.
Sa flamme vivante
Autrefois si grande.
Non, c'est ici…
Le long des rues Parisiennes.
Par nuit, par nuit, la chatte comme le chat
Est de patrouille
Au son rythmique des talons aiguilles.
Le chat poursuit ses sentiers connus,
Cherchant les poubelles des Bistros fermes
Mais pour la chatte c'est le bordel
Toujours ouvert, prêt a recevoir
Les graines de désespoir!
Le matin, cependant, apporte la chaleur.
Les deux amis endormis dans leur lit.
Elle s'éveille et elle caresse le chat.
« Ah, Ici, mon ami, je suis le chat..
Et tu es la chatte…. »
Comme ils se joindre dans leurs rêves sublimes.
Et Elle sourit.
Together they leave their sweaty flat. What a pigsty! But they try.
They do try!
This is not the place where she has lost her soul, her living flame
once so tall.
No, it is here along these Parisian streets. By night, by night.
The whore like the cat patrols to the rhythmic sound of her
stiletto heels.
The cat pursues his known routes, searching the waste-bins of closed cafes.
But for the whore it's the brothel always open ready to receive the
seeds of despair.
The morning, however, brings warth.
The two friends asleep on their bed.
She wakes and strokes the cat:
'Now, here, my friend, I am the cat and you are the Whore! '
As they are joined in their sublime dreams and she smiles.
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Me and my French puns! Chatte is colloquial. Putain being the more literal form! Surprised at your teachers! Perhaps you didn't have a French Assistant. Mine landed me with a Southern French accent! Not to mention a wide vocabulary and a little under-age drinking for some of us! what you might called a rounded education. I do have a Colloquial French Dictionary. Some of the English (and especially the Aussie) is enough to make me blush! The French is tame by comparison. Thought it best to put in a prose translation. Some French words such as pagaille, aguilles and poubelles would be unfamiliar to most people. Quel pigaille could be translated in quite a few ways; For an agnostic Christ, what a mess would be acceptable! Comments about my desk tend to be of the pigsty variety! Tom