thirteen ways of looking at cat vomit

I
The fly
lands on the cat vomit
and tastes it with his feet
like flies do.

II
I knew there was going to be a problem
when Whiskers wouldn’t stop watching
the dreidel

III
The cat vomit
is about the same temperature
as the indigo pillow
sitting in the sun
all day

IV
Someone else
will clean it up

V
The cat vomit
once brushed
intestinal flagella;
now it brushes
carpet fuzzies

VI
At the moment of
the cat vomit’s birth,
the cat made a sound
like a race car

VII
To think of the cat’s vomit
is to think of my own vomit
if I ate
a bag of cat food
too fast

VIII
Zounds, Kelly –
we’re out of
Fantastic; what if the cat
vomits again?

IX
In a contest
to see which was more abject:
the cat vomit or
the cat crap,
the cat vomit won;
Pat Sajak patted it
on its lumpy wet back

X
Cat vomit
by any other name
would smell
as vinegary

XI
Upside-down

XII
The smell of the cat vomit
lingers
with the guilt of the cat

XIII
If beauty is truth and truth beauty,
the cat vomit
is false.