Look, it ain’t my fault
I just don’t have luck with pigs and girls
Circe laughs at me when we have tea
twirling tauntingly in a scarlet cloak 
the pig waiter serving cucumber salads
as I howl about my heart troubles
Heartburn from three little pigs and Grandma Girls
who seduce woodcutters and wolves
to huff and puff before blowing houses and heads off
left with a belly of stone-cold rejection 

[When Cathy Watness is not writing, she is most likely gushing over her Death Feigning Beetle Jonesy or watching the cinematic classic Aliens. Her first poetry chapbook A Movement in War and Peace was published by Clare Songbirds Publishing House in 2019. Her short story “Liar, Liar” was featured in Fearsome Critters: Volume 3 in 2020. Her second poetry chapbook Love Baisant was published by Weasel Press in 2021. You can find her on Twitter @CathyWriter24, on Bluesky @cathycobalt.bsky.social, or on Facebook under Alice Rose Charles.]