Tuesday, May 24, 2011

For Mindy Dawn Schwering August 4, 1978 to forever

Love is a nose
so don't pick it
sometimes kind
brutally wicked

It's also a rug
disguised as a door mat

Standing on this love
came a knock on the door
I fell to the floor

I didn't need to drink anymore
I wondered what I had in store..
with a twist of the knob
and a leveling of eyes

to my dismay a horrible surprise
it was Kennedy or maybe Bill Bellamy
could it be? From MTV?

Can I come in and have a drink
it took only a second for me to think.

A booming NO! was thrust
like a Q-tip into ear...
Have I made myself clear

Kennedy, Bellamy
don't come to me
don't you see

When your generation got old
my generation got sold

You sold it to a soda company
you sold it to a video game

you sold it for profit
you sold it for fame

you're given no choice
a drink you shall have
come in, come in, to my bachelor pad

Make yourself at home
as I concoct you a brew
and that they did

flipping through pages
of stolen out of date
magazines from various doctor's offices
in the immediate area

A pinch of that
a dallop of this
to finish off this drink
about half full of piss

How bout some spit
no how bout some shit

I stolled in the room
as tall as a skyscraper
as wide as King Kong

Could I have been wrong?
Here
 drink up, drink up

Your drink will get warm if
you wait too long...

With a smile as wide as a Kansas sky
I looked at them in each of their beady little eyes

Gulp
Gulp
Gulp
they opened up their throats
If I was drinking surley
I would croak

But croak they did not
and live they still do

Still leaders of a circus
disguised as a zoo...

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