Wholly Weak
for G.M.L.

what about our being all too human,
Gina and me

the other side, the under side
of loveliness

mess to pass and pee to pass
sleep to sleep and dreams to dream

indisposed they say, we say
to cover a host of activities
not to be shared

to be performed, enjoyed
in private

what is stink to others possibly
is sweet to us, is bliss

point of relief, of release
point at what escapes
or is escaping from us

us once, us no more

separate what we eat
what we ate, from feces

where waste and what’s good for us
part company

with whom to share privacy
with whom unembarrassed
about what nature calls forth

inescapable animal element

in juxtaposition to the face
to prepare/we prepare
to meet the faces we must meet

at work or out to eat

out to eat a pretty girl
like a ripe mango
make her drip and cry out

grip the bed sheets
hang on for dear life
as if upon a raft in mid-ocean

sharks in the water
swimming round, circling

as hungry to eat her as I am


© Obediah Michael Smith, 2009
2:16 a.m. 07.04.09