spread out in the deep end

when i’m free to breathe in

the pool’s beer breath

a marlboro 27 bobs by

and if i ever touch down

there’s green glass on the bottom

so tread water

.

pedro’s rolling up the resin

and an orange ball is glowing

all the girls but one

complain about the taste

he fails to blow a smokering

and the magic 8 ball says

the fates say yes

.

there is green grass round

the corner store at

the camelot apartments

there are gonna be people

at the house show

turn like 3 left turns till elm circle

left is law

.

on a brown couch

two blonde girls sat

up very straight

and very close

touching bare legs,

brown eyes smiling,

rarely speaking –

two twin sphinxes –

so Rill & Rill

sat. one loaded

an elephant-

shaped, glass hash pipe

(the one with the

orange…