Lickin’ ya lips
The first time
I ever smelt pussy
I was in the pub
with my dad.A man we were
playing pool with
stuck two dirty fingers
under my nose and said“you smell that boy?
You smell that?
That’s the
Stench of failure.”I knew what he meant,
even before I had
hair on my balls.
[from Drunk at the matinee by Ben Smith, 2010. Cover art work by Chelsea Martin.]