Mike Crowl's Poems in Process

That smell, it lingers ever yet;
I know it's onions.

My wife thinks perhaps I haven't washed today,
Nor used deodorant.
I know it's onions.

My mother wonders if it's olive oil;
I know it's not oil at all -
I know it's onions.

My child says Dad, you smell!
I know it just as well -
I know it's onions.

Oh, onions, onions, everywhere,
They steep my skin,
Invade my hair,
Their fragrance filters every lair.

I knows my onions.

14/11/2004

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