Somewhere this dusk
a girl puckers her mouth
and considers kissing 
the toad a boy has plucked
from the cornfield and hands
her with both hands,
rough and lichenous 
but for the immense ivory belly,
like those old fat cats
sprawling on Mediterranean beaches,
with popped eyes,
it watches the girl who might kiss it,
pisses, quakes, tries
to make its smile wider:
to love on, oh yes, to love on.