I consider this piece "Kafkaesque" --- very much like my works, where you take an idea and make it surreal and ambiguous, and also connect two dissimilar ideas through the use of metaphor. The idea of the cat with nicotine was confusing, but I understood it as the poem progressed and your emotion became stronger.

There isn't much "plot" to it. The whole "plot" is you describing the nicotine with the cat. You write,

The nicotine cat sits--
spits--
acid hiss into muggy August warm air.
"I don't care, I don't care!"
she says to me through
wily apple green eyes.

Until
I click--clack--crackle
that thing into life:
a moment of inhale--
more holy than childbirth--
and the nicotine cat's attention
suddenly spins--pins
my fingers in agonized place
in the sweatbox permanent air.

Stroke
her very tip top scalp; her eyes roll.
Stroke
her neck, behind the ears.
Stroke
along her back, her butt rises, and final
tail pull meowl.
Stroke
whiskers for tickle laughs.
Smoke
the karmic cigarette, thick with--
Smoke,
the nicotine cat moment--senses.

And the nicotine cat
absorbs her addiction
from my finger pours,
and I realize I want to

Smoke
the nicotine cat
into nausea withdraw.
Smoke
hissing lungs
to their rasping end--

Is the cigarette the cat, or the cat the cigarette? I have determined that you think the  cat as your nicotine addiction, and you go into a trance where you daydream and think of smoking your cat. That's what makes this piece surreal --- it's almost like a painting or sculpture, even a character study. You combined William Carlos Williams with Franz Kafka. Difficult, nonetheless, but you got your point across.

Pacing was good, very "modernistic" like a James Joyce piece.

The descriptions were ambiguous and forthright, although I do feel you could have added "umph" to it; it seemed rushed, but then again you're smoking a cigarette and thinking of a cat, so that could add to the "rushed pace," because you're experiencing a high.

POV was good. 1st-Person limited. I think you have added thoughts from the cat, though,

Your narrator was dull, but symbolic while the cat and the nicotine were the driving forces of the piece.

No dialogue significant enough to comment on.

Grammar and spelling were correct.

Again, I like your Kafkaism and modernist style. Keep up the good work, and I plan to read more of your pieces. I hope you return the favor. Happy writing.

 Intersting work here. Nice use (and not overuse) of dissonace while maintaining clarity, though the metaphor is a bit obscure (a wonderful quality in my opinion, though this may alienate other readers, I say, stick to it).

 The theme is a bit difficult, but not to the point of being completely unrelated to any emotion or natural experience. The theme is vibrant, overshadowing its obscurity. To my eyes, this poem has nothing to do with nicotine or cats (in the literal sense, intentional or not). A delightful challenge. 

 Very vibrant mood, as I said earlier. Commendable accomplishment considering the obscurity of the poem. Nicely done.

 The images, though not literal, were quite powerful. Though they are not conistent and totally unrelated, they meld together perfectly when surrounded by dissonance. The chaos of your meter compliments the irony of your theme.

 The poem is obviously centered around your metaphor. As earlier stated, it is a bit obscure. Your metaphor (along with your style and meter) bring to mind TS Eliot. The cat metaphor specifically reflects Eliot's own cat metaphor in "The Love Song of J Alfred Prufrock". Interesting.

 This seems to be a cross influence between the metaphorical obscurity and metrical formations of T.S. Eliot and E. E. Cummings. Beat vs. modern perhaps? I love it.

 Nothing significant.

 Overall, a very entertaining work. Keep it up.

 I like this! It's very hypnotonic to read, very fun!

It's very easy to grasp the theme of this poem, and thankfully there's no cliches or overused phrases used in this poem!   If there's an insight, I'd say it's more of a brief glimpse into a smoker's life with his cat.

The poem created quite a mood - a smoker and his cat relaxing in each other's nicotine-addicted company.   I think it was very well done, and easily maintained effectively throughout the poem.

 The images chosen were very effective and easy to see in my mind.  They were more like sketches than a full portrait - appropriate to this poem, I think.  I especially loved the description of "wily apple green eyes"...it (to me) describes the cat's personality very succiently, I think.

 The rhythm and meter are simple and easy to follow.  It flows very well for me, and the rhymes didn't seem complex to me. 

 The vocabulary in this poem is nicely varied, with a few words chosen to be repetitive to add impact to the poem.  I think the words were very well chosen.  Especially switching from "Stroke" to "Smoke" - I had to re-read that first switch before my mind would accept "smoke".  The transistion was so smooth I didn't see it at first.  Nice!

 A couple spelling questions - is "meowl" and "withdraw" on purpose?  Cuz meowl looks wrong to me, but it could be intended to show how the cat sounds.  Withdraw, from the grammatical conventions, looks like it should be withdrawl, but of course if you're dropping the "L" to keep the rhythm and rhyme of the poem...  Just wondering.

 This poem is still bouncing around in my head!  I think you did a very good job here.    Defintely looking forward to more, Josiah!