Agreeable Once
for C.D.O.

remember when she used to stink
even after bathing
after showering

I’d point it out as gently as I could
being careful to limit scorn

how disarming was her acceptance
of herself, her scent, her willingness
to go at it again, to do it all over again
until she was fit to go to bed with
to have sex with

these days she’s stink and arrogant about it
offers no apology for it
intolerant, impatient with my inability
to abide her ways, choices she’s made
my unwillingness to be included
incorporated in the mess
that her life is, in its foulness


© Obediah Michael Smith, 2007
7:37 p.m. 09.08.07