The Mouse
The Mouse By Catherine Sawers I’m sorry officer, I don’t have my registration a rodent hopped in my car while on a camping vacation She ate anything made of paper in the glove compartment especially anything from the transportation department For example, here is a handful of registration confetti that lay in the...
Friends Forever
Friends Forever By Catherine Sawers I think it’s about time I finally talk about my friend whom more than a year ago I feel like I left for dead it doesn’t matter that we lost touch in our godawful twenties if I had my druthers we’d still be playing Barbies and buying up...
Le Ménage
Le Ménage by Catherine Sawers Putting clothes on hangers What is the point I’m just going to wear that shirt Again in a week Keeping up the manor Cleaning up this joint For all this effort I must exert My digs are hardly more sheik We’re still sleeping in the parlor Cos tidying isn’t my...
Africa Unite
Africa Unite By Catherine Sawers Well, they’ve done it again, I don’t even get the motivation, One minute this person is listing countries, The next, they’re obsessed with pygmies, The female lead did it in Proof of Life, ‘Remember Thailand and Egypt and all the strife? ‘Remember Afrikah?’ She sounds like she’s suppressing a...
Zombie Haiku
Zombie Haiku By Catherine Sawers The real zombies are The ones who enjoy watching Zombie movies. Uuuuuurrrrrrggggghhhhh. Author: Catherine Sawers Visit Catherine's Website - Email Catherine Catherine Sawers was born in Washington D.C. and has spent much of her life in Africa, Latin America, and Europe. Catherine is...
Envy
Envy By Catherine Sawers Have you ever met a woman Who wishes she was a man And had her own member That she could give a special name Except in certain cases Freud’s penis envy has no basis A theory made in bad faith By observing hysterical patients. What could be...
What is Real?
What is Real? By Catherine Sawers I was rushing up second avenue To catch a movie to review When up comes this giant Hassid In his trench coat and dark hues. He said he wanted to ask me something I said ‘Shoot, man. Do your bidding’ What he said next surprised...
Dream Lake
Dream Lake By Catherine Sawers You don’t know the meaning Of the word panic until You’ve seriously weighed the likelihood That a coyote will find your frozen body. Nothing can be more terrifying Than the sun setting behind the hill And your legs are frozen like a block of wood And...
Film Review: Francophrenia (Or Don’t Kill Me, I Know Where the Baby Is)
Film Review: Francophrenia (Or Don’t Kill Me, I Know Where the Baby Is) By Catherine Sawers Francophrenia is entertaining, for experimental film or otherwise. I went expecting a certain degree of navel-gazing and was delighted to see that the narrative agent is playfully indifferent to the ever-present subject, actor James Franco. Franco ceded...
