Alphabet Soup
for T.P.

“I wish I’d eaten
“your pussy just once!”
I said
“Well it’s too late now!”
said Sadie, married lady
“You just did!”
I wish she'd said
like Julia Roberts


© Obediah Michael Smith, 2007
10:07 a.m. 9/11/07


Scaffolding
for W.S. Merwyn

punctuation marks
like tacks
to keep a poem up
which would otherwise
fall off the page

off the wall


© Obediah Michael Smith, 2007
10:30 a.m. 9/11/07