Two poems by Kathryn Yuen

 

Who the f#%k  is Derrida?

And Sappho ?

And Batho ?

You have trespassed

onto my private poetry haven.

Nuked my pleasure.

Like nose rings and nipple

rings and ‘greek flute’ rings

on a Christian minister or

Buddhist monk…..

You don’t belong.

Get!  and take Icarus with you.

 

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DBS

Homer of Simpsons

And MadMen of TV

Salute

Turn polite and attentive to

their partners or comforters

Like mere mortal males

There is an uncomfortable

Dangerous buildup of sperm

During the ratings and mating

Period

Imagine

a Rorschach blot on

Brad Pitt’s butt.

The inkings of a drug-sick

Drug-high tattoo-artist

Who’d rather paint walls

flyyyyy

Icarus with concrete boots and

wings stiff with copious birdshit

there are

Turns of phrase to end hostilities or

Kiss away sorrow or tweak pleasure

Words

Re-created as a hard bowel movement

ahh

The alchemy of turning honey into @#$%

Is ordinary everyday immanence.

 

Author bio: 

 

Kathryn is a poet, writer, playwright, theatre reviewer, and storyteller. She has been published in ZineWest, Social Alternatives, Otoliths, Chrysanthemum, Poetry d'Amour 2013 - Love Poems for Valentine's Day, RedRoom's Disappearing app, various anthologies, and online. Her plays have been read and staged by PlayWriting Australia, Short&Sweet, and as part of Women Power and Culture by Sydney's New Theatre. Her work has also won awards. She adores mucking about with words and telling stories. It's better than playing with knives or other people's decapitated bodyparts. She figures she can't get put away just for writing stuff.