Ass Lickers
Pussy Lickers
for Cherese Pratt

hips are lips

is that your image
or is it mine
to do something with

in a poem, on the toilet
or in bed

I remember reflecting
somewhere, some time ago
upon the mouth
how it’s laid out, east to west

compared with
a woman’s opening
a woman’s front

how it’s laid out
how it’s made, north to south

I allowed myself
these lines, extended,
to form a cross

and thought of sweetness
coupled with the crucifixion

think of the hips,
the great big lips these are
or are sometimes

and though they are like lips,
unlike lips, they, like vulvas
are laid out vertically also

and I wonder about
our creator’s infinite wisdom

wonder how eating
or intercourse,

giving birth or defecating
would have differed

were what is horizontal, vertical

or what if all three of these
were instead slanted

to right or left
as a mouth at times is
after a stroke

after some accident

or all three, slanted
or made crooked
with old age


© Obediah Michael Smith, 2008
2:24 p.m. 02.04.08