Bus to Town
for D.A.

always inside me a few unfired shots
to fire off
erotic shots or other shots

if nothing else, a needle in the butt

can you stand pain
recall the bone ache after one such injection

penicillin after some sexual encounter
gone wrong

gone to my doctor on Market Street
ages ago but recall it like yesterday

limping out to Bay Street in severe pain
pain which meant cure

boy did I feel like I'd been undone

why I tell you dis, I wonder

want you to know all about me
want to know all about you

photographs of you bored
finger in your nose before the camera

insecticide spray aimed at the cameraman
at the audience

photos of you I like least

the one with a plastic gun
and all sorts of fearful thoughts come to mind
thoughts of violence entirely out of hand

you to take in hand
when you're ripe enough to pick

probably yesterday
don't want you spoiling on the vine

like water melon


© Obediah Michael Smith, 2009
10:59 a.m. 05.10.09