The Smell of Farts

My girlfriend says that my farts smell worse than hers.
I wouldn’t know: I have no sense of smell.

I like to believe mine smell like roses but I have no way to find out.
So I hold them in, just in case they don’t.

I would like to smell my farts some day.
Even if they don’t smell like roses.

Some people can smell their farts
But insist everyone else pretend they smell like roses.

I’ve lived with people like that.
I learned to doubt my own sense of smell,
And wait for them to confirm that I’m smelling roses.

One day it dawned on me what roses actually smell like.
Smelling farts was one thing.
Pretending they were roses was another.

When someone can’t accept the smell of their farts,
Something else is already rancid.

Then, ironically, I lost my sense of smell.
But I still prefer people who accept that their farts stink.

You don’t need a sense of smell when you can taste the truth.