Your Lovely Scent

Inspired by: SWEET LIKE A CROW By: MICHAEL ONDAATJE

             Your breath smells like opening the capof an expired bottle of milklike a public lavatory for elderslike ten flatulating cowslike Rapunzel's hair dragging behind heracross the garbage dump, like the plumbing system in Chinaa rotting jail cella fresh duriana sink clogged with food scrapslike a sock from fifty years ago,like unwashed armpits,like an unflushed toilet,a dying fish, a child's boogerwith a roten egglike a corpse in a coffinlike a handful of a baby's puke,like an unshaven beard, like a boy'schangeroom after PE,a pile of beer bottles in themiddle of the night,the space under my bed,like fertilizer on a garden bedlike raw meat resting under the sun for five dayslike a skunk running across your backyardlike parmesian cheeselike your garlic breath wheneveryou lean in close to talk to me