Saturday, April 18, 2026

Michelle Smith

Flopping from the fix


He lay supine on the MacArthur Park grass

Staring into space fixed eyes

Gods  sky and oxygen 

reeled in a  human school of fish

Fed him a second chance meal called 

Narcan 

Bald head body lean from head to toe

Coughed in oxygen mouthed imaginary 

bubble gulps of fresh air

Inhale,  exhale

A  saving grace sprayed into one nostril

Insert nozzle,  touch  the nose, press the plunger 

Back to life 

Fishes fins akin to human hands

rubbed gentle strokes from 

the chest

to the torso 

to the belly up

the school of fish saved him 

Please don't flop anymore




She's wearing


She's daring

She's Halle Bailey Ariel donning a prom dress

A small fish in a large pond

No Little Mermaid fins to float to the very top 

Neptune's Net school of dress code rules 

Was King Triton Dad  not swimmingly 

Aware of what thoughts swam through 

Her guppy curved body in all the right places

All dolled up in see thru lace

So much  for imagination 

No chance of a first or last dance tonight 

Captured silhouette  with 

Barracuda intentions can't  fin  her way 

To glide or swim into that fishtail itch



 

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