Sacrifice
Tag Archives: Drugs
PLACEBO
PLACEBO
When it comes to medical ills
60% feel better with the sugar pills
So obviously for complete relief
we just need a little more belief
MUSHROOM CLOUDS
MUSHROOM CLOUDS
When she seeded the clouds with mescaline
the snowflakes fell each singing a song
like the tastes on her tongue
no two the same
A Poem Before Holland
A POEM BEFORE HOLLAND
I travel to Holland
on wings of a childhood story
silver skates and finger in a dike
To lands wrestled from an angry sea
a sea that dearly wants them back
Unceasing vigilance to keep the prize
a dark line drawn across their eyes
I see windmills chop the salt wet air
Art and flowers leaping up in faith
behind thin walls
Back to the little boy and the dike again
legal drugs and red lights in the rain
These are a fair and sturdy people
I like them now, and I like how
In a land where children must
so often act as men
They do not pass acts that treat
their men as children
SACRIFICE
SACRIFICE
The Kubla Khan’s from minds
broken loose by
and all too soon broken by drugs.
The alcohol that so many have found as
the key to their heaven and their hell.
And all the wounds of daily battles with
truths wrestled to a fall
Makes me wonder if writers
like mothers
and forests
sometimes lay down their bodies
that their children
may grow