Two Poems by Catherine Pikula

 

My Dick
 

is bigger than yours, 
and looks good 
in a peep-toe pump. 

My dick makes me come
every time. If I want to
I can stick it in my butt
or even lick it like
a rainbow whirly pop.

My dick likes to explore 
ancient cultures, likes to
dive down into manholes 
searching for lost obelisks.

My dick never hits me 
but sometimes I hit myself 
over the head with obelisks 
to help me sleep.

My dick is self-
cleansing like a cat
and can go for months 
without getting bored or sad.

When my dick gets sad,
it stacks strawberry 
frosted doughnuts
on itself and feeds me.

When my dick gets bored,
it reads Hegel, enjoys talking 
about what he meant 
by übergriefen: to overlap, 
encroach, overreach.

My dick wants to be
on the street, wants to press 
doorbells, and open doors
where it is met with a fuck yeah!

 

 

 

Poem Lacking Intimacy
 

When I said I had no sense 
of a moral compass, I 
meant I was embarrassed
over killing the mint, 
and not over eating 
cereal on the toilet.

The woman on the radio
says vulnerability
is not the same thing
as oversharing, which 
lacks the intimacy
of actual sharing.

Another bird I don’t know
is singing. I should be 
asleep, but my mind is with 
a particular patch of sun;
I saw with B, three years ago,
the absence of a lounge chair.

To grocery shop
is the closest thing
I feel to being alive,
acknowledging I need
spring mix and expecting
I will be here to eat it.

 

 

 

 

Catherine Pikula received her BA from Bennington College and is currently an MFA candidate at NYU where she is a Writers in the Public Schools fellow through a partnership with the Teachers and Writers Collaborative.