Les Mots des La Rue

“She ask me if I
could grine hard”

what generates the action
of this verb
in what is its genesis

does it, like the river,
commence in the mountains

ability to grind hard
seems like something done
with a brace and bit
gripped firmly in two fists
board to bore through

as objective as this
when compared with, in contrast to,
the inspiration to make love
flowing out of being in love
unlike a thing done to
or done against someone

so many children enter this world,
come out of fuckin’
something hard core
on a hard floor

rather than on soft mattress
instead of conceived in love
in a marriage bed

I fucked her and she bled,
a thing to brag about, among men later,
while drinking Guinness
while swilling beers


© Obediah Michael Smith, 2007
10:20 p.m. 07/09/07