Hadi Atallah

Her love life was crippled

Because everything smelled like skunk

She bought special shampoo

And expensive perfume

The modern incarnations

Of a goddess in business school

This was a disaster

And an opportunity in her failure

Do you smell it now?

A white lie with constant exposure

Damages your olfactory

With rewards more powerful than others

…And the monkeys came to understand

His brow furrowed with worry

It was just a cold

Could’ve invited a dozen

But held himself accountable

His ex stuck out her tongue

And there were a hundred cats more

How proud he made them all

Like shadows they danced on his wall

Spending a day with him

They’d eat together and smoke

He remembered the last time

When he was thinking of you

…This was his unwavering God damned loyalty.