Bow
To the whisky bottle,
And put your finger
Here
Between these frets.
Hit these keys
All at the
Same
Time.
Dip cigarettes in crawfish juice,
Get stymied by a gas station
Condom wrapper.
Know this,
These,
People and faces and professions
Neuroses
Dogs' names
Relatives
Those others
So significant.
Lose elastin, use lotion.
Snooze buttons, schmooze cliques
And
Play
Your part
Running
For local bar regional review assessment commissioner.
Repair things.
Learn how. It ain't hard.
Hit it with a hammer, weld it.
Learn the back roads in Tuscumbia,
Drive a stick shift, order the cheapest beer,
take cold showers, go camping unprepared. Eat the guts of
Crawfish, make terrible
Homemade pizza, burn bad poetry,
Burn good prose, burn letters, burn photos. Keep photos, get in touch with old friends, then never speak to them.
In a daydream, we dance to
Skynyrd in firelight,
Mosquito bitten and barefoot,
And the pebbles rattle under our feet.
Now look at the whiskey bottle,
see how much you've drank. Acknowledge this as a dose,
how much you need
now, versus
every other time.
Don't freak out. Don't eat too much.
Don't act wild at work, it looks weird.
Don't play with
fishing poles in a parking lot,
don't talk to yourself at wal-mart.
Be a human,
Love, remember,
Be a reptile,
Hate, forget
