1.22.2023

a girl puckers her mouth and considers kissing

Somewhere this dusk 
a girl puckers her mouth 
and considers kissing 
the toad a boy has plucked 
from the cornfield and hands 
her with both hands; 
rough and lichenous 
but for the immense ivory belly, 
like those old entrepreneurs 
sprawling on Mediterranean beaches, 
with popped eyes, 
it watches the girl who might kiss it, 
pisses, quakes, tries 
to make its smile wider: 
to love on, oh yes, to love on. 
 

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