Ambergris

Distilled from the waxy digestive system

Of a sperm whale’s vomit

Found floating on the ocean

Or lying on the coastline

And fermented

For 18 years

In the finest

Antique Scottish oaken casks

From a distillery since shuttered

In the early

1800’s.

Measured

And recipied

Precisely

Without flaw

For perfumery

By a family run business

In Morocco

Since the

Earlier parts

Of the 18th century.

It’s sold in markets there
For exorbitant sums.

The scent is sublime.

Heavy

Musky

And erotic.

It’s what unfailingly

Gets me laid

Until this day.