Observing

Entertaining

No time for fools

Tanned
Leaf
Wrapped
Cuban
Skin
Around

******
Bones
Passed
Down

Afforded
Effort
Exhaled
With style

Clasped
Wooden
Boxes
Tobacco
Emptied

Filled
With
Metal
Ribbons
Tied
Around

******
Bones
Passed
Down

Mother-in-law’s
Tongue
Swells
On
Receipt
Of you

Forbidden

I hold
I light

Forbidden

I pass
To you

Forbidden
We inhale