Catherine Zeta-Narcissist

I.

Men in the ambiguous flesh lake
know me,        and my weakness
is hardly       your business.
I am all.  I am         leaning
                    on the wicked.

Ladies in the lake come out as if
you are the only world       in the world!
         
I said, be your own cotton cake
and nobody's       badger!

               

II.
             
          So squirm
between the saving
and the silt
and haunt them
like culture
       
       like icing

                   piping
so thick and so
sweet nobody
wants it



       

The Ills

The weak dazed
when the house
came revealing Friday

Some days stink
this one never smelled
like anything

A gutsy party
as sexual as
everyone agreed

Berlin was a beast
psychic twits
at our feet

Just wondering
if the beast had
his medicine

Shyku (8.17.2013)

vampire's religion

a man ages

bites his own neck

--

go forth wraith

small apartment 

in a town unnamed

--

cat plays

pencil falls

watch for movement

--

a pretty lady

but not known

all hers

--

aged people

staring at them

then the mirror

--

salting tombstones

he looks for reasons

to live alone

--

old man your face

resembles the back

of my hand, hardly

--

daughters cried

we watched

dry eyes clearly

--

one man took

another man followed

others talked

Shyku (7.26.2013)

affably indifferent

the bitter limit

welcomes more poses

--

options are ghosts

fun trumps goodness

toking roses

--

kinky archaeology

past civilizations

under what clothes

--

down to crystalline  

skeletons, everything

whittled datum

--

mutant muse

moral aquarium

both hold water

--

known waiting

works no mirror

strawberry jim harlot

--

analysis, magic

without neither

both

--

the endless throat

the short swallow

wherefore art stomach

--

death diet

I'm yours

et cetera

--

smarter than 

no free hand

that slaps shadow

--

time destroys itself

in the flesh

what other duty

--

more alike than 

different, impossible

hospitals

--

no smart phone

texting awkward

no hand matters

--

conquer oneself

in others

ever after

Shyku (7.21.2013)

South African jacarandas

students study under

exam blossoms

--

dead style

sex in defeat

the turtle savage

--

lived to be forty

boring loose moments

survived to comment

--

appearance prom

bubbles from the void

porn actress with braces

--

park by the river

sometimes empty

from people

--

best thinking

attacks the river

which keeps rolling

--

neither nor
shadowboxers

boxed shadows

--

taste dignifies expense

wet your wilt

a way only

--

more gates

than barbarians

more waiting

--

pretty for one year

ugly for none

whole life accordingly

--

so much contend

so many from

so little

--

networking the grave

fame makes a maggot

a worm better

--

models on a mountain

pose the mountain

open snowing

--

avant traffic

goes nowhere

honks louder

--

bearing itself under

a mound about town

uplifts obliquely

--

generate conflict

stay motivated

human kindling

--

laundry gore

skinned limp

flesh elsewhere real

Shyku (7.20.2013)

if only more

than a saying

a brother

--

misery in flight

misery on foot

lying still

--

beyond the valley

even more valleys

atop one strange hill

--

on tit of ghost

sign a name

suckle

--

bridemaker

to widowmaker

whose are we

--

the insult

as if naturally

of being feared

--

knees needed

to walk on feet

without kneeling

--

mood evangelist

calm when others

what other

--

before judgement

restraint forgives

a lost mammal 

--

groom of cold use

one man missing

from another

--

urine mouthwash

ancient Rome

pisses kissing

--

years in her eyes

the living flaw

aggrieves no one

--

yell all you want

it goes

no echo

Shyku (7.16.2013)

little nothing

published at gunpoint

true and new

--

pale enemy

murdered in lieu

of weather, children

--

headache in hand

she lived to wave

ocean responded accordingly

--

rain or eye, the

living room's one window

pimpled light

--

a fool of worth

or sleeper in flames

choose wisely

--

heartlessness on a

sleeve, it 

wears you

--

skin witch means

Detroit, Detroit

but says: San Diego

--

"needs too" 

the cat says

biting

--

running while drowning

all looks same

with, without, water

--

what motivation

is there in luxury

a blond popsicle

--

in the golden age

of excellent haircuts

headless baldness

--

beast of breath

walks on the poor

rich again

--

no ways to return

skin to a cat

where it belongs

--

going south

know thyself

cruel directive

--

shamed by time

man or boy

a whole evening

--

butcher of sleep

hang your meats

to see them