Short Reiterated Poems

I've heard it a million times,
By friends, family, and others I've held dear,
"Oh, Catie, don't worry about her, she'll be fine."
So let me tell you now...
 No, Catie will not be fine....

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reiterated &continous
an outpouring
exemplifies
 an alterego
in succinct
  ironic layers

a  relentless
genre
perennial
&
implicit

 a practice
paralleled &
morphed
into sparse lines
as
 visual statements
of solitude mode

yet
isolated
with self signature
&
is self streamed...

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Tom Waits encountered the devil at a crossroads. "Well hello Tom, what do you want most in this world?" And Tom said, "A shot of whiskey." The devil said, "Don't you want to be a great singer? And join me in a singing contest?" "Whiskey," Tom reiterated. "But I can give you anything, anything you want." "F**k you, I'll get my own whiskey," growled Tom, and continued on his way....

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He is a mean hyena the child said in horror.
His daddy and mommy thought he was joking.
Not realizing there had been a lawsuit.
Mama Hyena had enrolled her son in the human school.

Don’t call him that! His parents protested. It is not nice.
But he is a hyena! The child reiterated, right, but not believed.
They met the hyena themselves that afternoon in the park.
And promptly apologized to their son....

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My day is ruined the eleven-year-old said.
It is the worst kind of day, I wish I were dead.
What is it? I asked? She looked like perfection.
This enormous pimple is full of pink puss infection.

I looked as hard as I could to where she was pointing.
Seriously, I could see nothing upsetting or disappointing.
It is the most awful flaw on a face I have ever seen she said
Then she reiterated that she wished she was dead....

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