Lip

Edge, verge, labium. Flange, impertinence, recompense.
Road to the mouth inside us, the blue-red slippery, 
the not quite in. Insolence, convexity, lip lip
rim. Body collar, curb of the pussy, furbelow, flounce.
Skirt of the known world, threshold to the threshold,
trim. Margin of the valley between thighs, sidle up/ 
jump. Brink of your first happiness, almost
oops, you’re in/edge on. 

liplipliplip/bopbopaloobop/as good as dope/almost.
The swoop, the junction, the original front lawn,
one less than a trois, spank it, frisk it, the light goes
on. Sidewise smile, gateway to red. Light summer
jacket & your mama said: save it for a rainy day,
wear a light jacket on a summer night, but she
never rocked the body electric, original e, she
never sang it like that/did your mama? Ever 
turn over, drive right up to the window,
say, I’ll take some. Give me some spurt, some 
rush, some one more time, some honey, 
I’m the city, I don’t need your map.

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