Your skin smells like old Camel cigarettes in their $5.00 boxes at the Smokeshop
Like an unwashed rag sitting on the shower shelf for days after its last use
Like an old man drenched in alcohol slouched over a bar stool for months or years
Like B.O. on busses transiting the Bay Bridge
Like sweet soap after that shower with me (do you remember that?)
Like garlic bread with olives fresh from Star Market
Like ginger candy with sugar coating (now on back order from Rockridge Health Foods)
Like spritzed hairspray the last time you did the "hairspray trick"
Like green pickles left in the jar with thyme and rosemary, 10 years in the refrigerator
Like your father too old to remember his name
Like Mollie the collie who woofed at your footsteps coming home