The smell between
fingers is unmistakable
and now my head aches
like an ocean’s despair
at not being awarded
significant status,
the stigma all abutting
in the flotsam
that takes credit for, or
an investment share.
Sometimes you can sit
and not smell it
but for only a few days
in the short year.
I have already
suggested long walks
until suddenly
exploding within legal limits
all over your a more
unique smell, most fair.