04-15-2017, 11:52 PM
[shit and shivers - ten days on a ransom note and this is the result? Yuck. but its NaPo and I am all caught up. 
]
A Higher Consciousness
We were stoned when we made the pledge
in Mike’s sixth-floor room, the four of us, a vow,
a resolution on New Years Eve to get stoned
every day of January. Most made it.
I took a break in mid-April.
One night’s novelty was a sweet potato pipe,
filled, passed, and refilled with first rate hash.
Music from the grooves of vinyl, compliments of
Quicksilver Messenger Service and Best of Cream.
Slumped on couches we’d found curbside, Pinto
sat in the corner, didn’t say much, but he’s the one who
taught us to hyperventilate on a Vicks Inhaler. I think
they are illegal now. Too bad, that’s where I learned
to hang onto the rope, no matter what. Kept me sane.
With no prelude or prompting, Paul launched
his exegesis with Lucifer, Beelzebub, Nixon,
and Mephistopheles. We burn in hell if he gets
our soul, and the other way around too - fungible,
transitive? -- some words just float away.
The point - if Yahweh doesn’t get it, then we burn too.
Book says we give it up for Yahweh or burn forever.
He made it sound like ransom, scripture being a pure
ransom note. But what do I know, I was stoned.
]A Higher Consciousness
We were stoned when we made the pledge
in Mike’s sixth-floor room, the four of us, a vow,
a resolution on New Years Eve to get stoned
every day of January. Most made it.
I took a break in mid-April.
One night’s novelty was a sweet potato pipe,
filled, passed, and refilled with first rate hash.
Music from the grooves of vinyl, compliments of
Quicksilver Messenger Service and Best of Cream.
Slumped on couches we’d found curbside, Pinto
sat in the corner, didn’t say much, but he’s the one who
taught us to hyperventilate on a Vicks Inhaler. I think
they are illegal now. Too bad, that’s where I learned
to hang onto the rope, no matter what. Kept me sane.
With no prelude or prompting, Paul launched
his exegesis with Lucifer, Beelzebub, Nixon,
and Mephistopheles. We burn in hell if he gets
our soul, and the other way around too - fungible,
transitive? -- some words just float away.
The point - if Yahweh doesn’t get it, then we burn too.
Book says we give it up for Yahweh or burn forever.
He made it sound like ransom, scripture being a pure
ransom note. But what do I know, I was stoned.