Mocking Bird
for T.T.S-M.

must take out even the tonsils of a poem
if it's not singing,
if it's not song


© Obediah Michael Smith, 2007
8:53 p.m. 01/08/07


In What To Keep Years

at eighty I can have a party
bigger than the one, at eighteen,
I wish I had

I have a hard on for life, zest for life
if only I could get her dress off
her draws off

my draw with pajamas, with draw strings,
when I pulled it open,
fell upon the floor


© Obediah Michael Smith, 2007
3:22 p.m. 03/08/07