Explicatin'

Kitty Goes Postal--
wants pizza.
Kitty has hat & cape and looks
like a magician . . .

Observe kitty eating a slice of pizza.
"Eat some free pizza, Kitty!" YUM
(pizza man impatient at the door)

BAD KITTY LIST, FOOD RELATED
_____will not use my ninja kitty paw strike
_____naked on sofa with rapidly-cooling pizza
_____monster clowns with KITTY-FACES!

"Take off your shoes, bitch"
Base Mood, icky. Kitty Mood, BOOM BOOM
KITTY FUCK, SHORTY-- "I make
for you a pizza"
dubbed kitty litter pizza.
(Whatever you do keep away from the Kitty Litter pizza

Just had the stupidest idea--
Make KITTY order pizza!
The kitty brings the pizza on its
paw, possibly
cold pizza

Send kind and healing thoughts
to Pizza Kitty
one sick kitty
cute blonde baffled pizza delivery . . .

Obverse of Kitty:
I have a bottomless pit for pizza
there is a pizza bar on ship
word is they're living off
an "all pizza diet"
Kitty won't be so finicky
When she's served this new stuffed pizza!

Expensive pizza date with Kitty.
Everyone ate pizza and soda.
Indigestible Japanese pizza.
Long, annoying lecture about being
A bad world kitty. "What turns you on, Pizza Kitty?"
Mommy does not like to get kitty kisses
while she is trying to eat pizza . . .

Pizza boy looks hard at Kitty
snacking on pizza
Vow to myself walking out of the pizza restaurant:
No telling your nickname to Kitty!

Super Kitty Cat Pics Archives
Asleep :.: Fishy Fountains [1] Delivery Boys [3] :. .:
Expensive Kitty Bed [3] :. .: :. .: Pizza

Kitty in some kind
of army uniform-everytime we contemplate
making pizza we remember this incident:
"Kitty, come down!" Pizza
all over our bodies.
Then the pizza guy (not the cute
pizza guy, worse luck)
comes to the door and says, "Peace, Kitty"

:. .: DEPENDS ON WHETHER I
CATCH THE SCENT OF PIZZA!!! :. .:

“Pizza Kitty” by Rodney Koeneke is my all time favorite Flarf poem, and it is also the first poem that read/saw. It was introduced to me over a year ago by a friend, before I was even aware of the Flarf movement. Out of all of the poems I’ve read, “Pizza Kitty” has the least depth to it. Some Flarf poets try to send a message underneath the strange and humorous lines, but Koeneke’s only sends a message of a Kitty who loves pizza. One thing I really enjoy about this poem is the way the sentences were juxtaposed and which sentences were chosen. These two aspects create the feel that this poem is being told from the eyes of a “kitty”. For example the lines, “Base Mood, icky. Kitty Mood, BOOM BOOM/KITTY FUCK, SHORTY—‘I make/for you a pizza’/dubbed kitty litter pizza” there is emphasis on the energy of a young kitten bouncing around “making a pizza.” This kitty litter pizza shows the joking nature of youth. Other lines that have this same emphasis focus on what the kitty is doing while they are expressed in capital letters.

Out of the whole poem, my favorite line is “monster clowns with KITTY-FACES!” because of the way Koeneke reads it. Choosing which poem to explicate was a tough decision because I wanted to find a poem that had a written and spoken version. Most Flarf is either only performed or written. “Atomic Bitch Wax” by Sharon Mesmer is another favorite of mine, but I could not find a written version to explicate. When I first watched Koeneke’s video performance of this poem I thought he was just rambling goofy phrases. Listening to a spoken version makes the text laugh out loud funny. The best part about Flarf poets is they don’t take themselves too seriously. Flarf is relaxing after a hard day’s work. If they took themselves seriously, poems like “Pizza Kitty” wouldn’t be funny to others. So, to all you Flarf poets out there, keep doing what you’re doing – it’s brilliant.