Marijuana Plants
for O.A.

want a relationship to go out in
to show up in
to show off in

this I’ve had so seldom
in five decades

how utterly delicious though
when it did arise
when it did exist

too often, for one reason or another
individuals have to hide from
have to avoid public gaze

there is a girl I go out with
who, in public,
is constantly in my arms

into them, into me
she’d fling herself
and I’d catch her
I’d hold her and she’d hold me

we’d laugh and we’d be
utterly happy


© Obediah Michael Smith, 2008
8:26 a.m. 15.02.08