Enough
piss if allowed to
swell
and steam amongst a decent dog bed
and kept confined in a small room
(perhaps a downstairs
cloak
abandoned to the animal in question)
will eventually and at a precise temperature
smell exactly on the evening's air
(once a door is opened) like the best
cigars
a rich
fug of poison and attendant thick throat.
This is not irony this is girl dog urine
always more bitter than the boys stronger
those acid squats onto dead grass dying
and now my neighbors good honest folks here
(the cheek by jowl of town living) ask across the fence
(one grill backed to another) if I have started on Cuban stogies
instead of those old cigarettes.
A fine man patrician good father says: "I've often thought of Cuba
how I could've have gone there as a young man before Castro
seen young women rolling leaves on their thighs a looser time
than the Princeton Class of '52 although it was never to be
but cigars and I've never smoked always remind me of my secret life."
And then he smiles his honest gums
takes a plate of meat inside saying
"Enjoy that smell it's freedom!"
while the bitch beside me dry begs for water.