the Tom Swift
of bedded roses
the thyme smell that wakes you
in the backyard as the
neighbor gets evicted
    good bye neighbor who threw slugs into
our yard
 take the screaming children too
   and chop their little heads off
 are you smoking
   again
    hahaha
        see i wore overalls

and drove a sunbeam alpine
 and listened to british blues
    a sorry lot really
                 I'll take Howlin Wolf
ANYDAY
    he lost his mind
 and his memory
just fucking erased
   a shell with personality
  and photos
I smoked a lot of weed
  back then
     did it make me crazy
         maybe it did
   or was it something else
         all three of us are crazy
         was it something else
      YES IT WAS SOMETHING ELSE