Poem: The Monkey's Paw

Dial ”M” for Monkey
It was a dark and stormy night at Manchester. The rain was dripping as if it were the drools out of a very lazy and sleepy dog. The thunder, screeching through the skies as if Zeus(god of thunder) was arrogant on someone. But the Clarks house, so warm and cozy. Everybody enjoyed doing chores and were very buoyant, not until a transformative object entered their lives and made them their lives filled with despair, and tragedy ,The Monkey’s Paw.
Few weeks ago, before the blustery and mournful day, The Clarks, were going to the beach which was 3 miles away. They were enjoying at the beach, kiteboarding on the breezy wind, and bone chilling water. Their only son, Alex went to see if he had won the lottery ticket. He rushed
to the counter to see his number. He saw that he won the lottery, and in excitement started screaming. The whole crowd in the line were looking at his weird, and crazy behaviour. In excitement he rushed to see what his prize would be, and alleging that prize would soon be his and his family’s fatal mistake. When they returned home, everyone had to share their personal experience at the beach. The sharing of experiences always started with Mr.Clark. Mr.Clark said,”I had a really good time kiteboarding with my friends, the winds were amazing, I felt like I could fly.” Ms Clark responded to that saying,”While you were enjoying the breeze and the water, like always, I was sitting down on the sand and melting my head off due to the intensity of the heat.”
Mr Clark replied saying,”Well if you were so bored, then you could’ve done something like go for a swim.”
Mrs.Clark was quiet. Mr. Clark said,”No more arguments, let's continue. Share your day at the beach please, Alex.”
Alex replied ”I was very surprised and proud to have won the lottery, and claimed that prize”
Mrs.Clark said,”Well what did you win?”
Alex said,”A monkey’s paw, and it came with a letter. The letter said,’This is the monkey’s paw, it has been blessed by a fakir and grants 3 wishes to 3 men. You will get your wish but be very wise in choosing your wish.’” After reading that the Clarks were curiously doubting the monkey’s paw ability and were mocking each other about their 3 wishes. Then Mr.Clark went to bed and put the monkey’s paw(his talisman) in his pocket.
Next evening, Mr.Clark went to the bar with his friends.
The monkey’s paw dropped out of his pocket with the letter, and his mate unnoticeably read the letter, and made the wish to see someone in jail. Mr.Clark saw that the monkey’s paw was with his mate and forcefully snatched it and left the bar. While he was walking back to his house, he saw his son smoking meth (drug), and rushed to stop him. In his efforts to reach quickly, he got hit by a bike and a crowd surrounded him trying to help .While he was trying to recover from the shock, he saw the police arrest his son for smoking at such a young age. After few months, Mr.Clark recovered and went to see his son in jail. The policeman asked him to appear in court the very next day for his son’s trial. In grief and anger, he went to the person who had picked the monkey’s paw and argued and threatened to kill him. Then he went home taking the monkey paw and wished for that friend to be dead. Exactly 20 mins after the wish, there was a breaking news on TV, that “All the money from the ’Western Union Bank’ has been robbed. The bank has refused to take any responsibility for the loss of their people’s money.” 5 minutes after that there is an explosion in the colony and his wife is killed in the explosion and almost everyone in the neighbourhood is injured. Then Mr.Clark steps out to see what happened and sees his friend neighbor's body bleeding like the water in a river. That was the stormy night when Mr.Clark in despair, crying his heart out to the world admitting his terrible mistakes of wishing on the monkey’s paw, makes his last wish of death. Mr. White saw a white door in front of him, he stood up and walked through that door and was amazed to see what was behind, his
death.