Clockwise Cat Issue 40
We lovingly dedicate Issue 40 to our dearly departed (Perpetual) Poet-in-Residence, Felino Soriano. We hereby offer a mini-tribute to him among many other amazing writings and artworks. Stay tuned to an entire tribute issue to Felino, coming up in early Spring, 2019.
We lovingly dedicate Issue 40 to our dearly departed (Perpetual) Poet-in-Residence, Felino Soriano. We hereby offer a mini-tribute to him among many other amazing writings and artworks. Stay tuned to an entire tribute issue to Felino, coming up in early Spring, 2019.
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The Utternuts<br />
By Darrell Petska<br />
Oh the utternuts<br />
of this hunger for<br />
McDonald's french fries<br />
at 2:00 a.m.—<br />
this dubious sentience<br />
taunted by a dangling<br />
golden tater wedge<br />
crossing a pocked rock<br />
to drop a buck<br />
eighty nine for the large<br />
the utternuts<br />
masquerading as me<br />
feeding fry by<br />
greasy fry its own<br />
boundless tastebuds,<br />
devouring its feet<br />
to sate its stomach.<br />
The ravenous utternuts<br />
I must serve, hand and jaw.<br />
I am its chicken<br />
nugget puppet strung<br />
on the golden arches of<br />
cosmic self-consumption.<br />
I am nil before<br />
supersized allness:<br />
fill me now!<br />
Author bio: Darrell Petska's writing has appeared in The Chiron Review,<br />
Mobius: The Journal of Social Change, Whirlwind Magazine, Outcast Poetry, The<br />
New Verse News and elsewhere (see conservancies.wordpress.com). Darrell<br />
worked for many years as communications editor, University of Wisconsin-<br />
Madison, before finally leaving academia to focus on his writing and his family.<br />
He lives in Middleton, Wisconsin.
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