Whip Wipe Weep
for N.T-B.

i
I break out in song when I see you
like James Brown, in a cold sweat

I break out in song
when you’re on my mind

like someone with an allergy
might break out
when they eat a tomato
or olives
or all of it or some of it

I break out in song over you
all the time, unable to help it

ii
like a kettle, always about
to shoot steam, spout steam, sing

so very easily you’re able
to trigger me off
trigger off a song

offer songs to me
when I might otherwise weep


© Obediah Michael Smith, 2008
5:24 p.m. 17.09.08