The Art of Tetman Callis

odors of toast and marijuana, bacon and tobacco
pissed-out beer and puked-up rum
apple and plum trees in full bloom

perfumed women and old spicy men
waiting on the bus’s black-sooted exhaust and metallic smell of motor oil

whiff of plastic burning, of coriander, chile verde and mace
axle-grease and antifreeze and morning in the neighborhood

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