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After LSD: A Mall, 1996


                 1.


    Time is that leakage unknown
     to man.  

     Viscous flood and  musical
     beats in the vial.

     The land below tells me 
     I am still in Physics' Class.
     I never had much of that, no
        
     Where's my tie?

     I don't need one!
    
    Gloria Estefan Is Singing My Last Number

    Waldenbooks, the clerk 
    tells me.  Nothing tied 
    at the moment. 

    Nothing in ties.


             
2.


Gloria Estefan is Gossping About Me

      I need shoes for 
      Gym.  I never go!     

      The shoes, they're 
      important; if I 
      show him these
      shoes, the ones I'm
      holding.  I might not
      have to play.  

      "i'm not your mother, honey."
       
       
Venom wisp, you old bag.
       Who told you to crush your
       eyes in that shade?  
 
      Flesh bags!
       
      Shadow puppets 
      I hold your song

     Gloria Estefan Is Telling on Me!

     
Hold these blue rainbow lice sparking in carpet isles.    
  

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bjp

16 years 4 months ago

Dear GB,

You are intrepid in your experimentation! Love, " Time is that leakage unknown/ to man," and "Who told you to crush your/ eyes in that shade?" Brian
Seren

Seren

16 years 4 months ago

Dear GB

You gone and done it again ... that line 'who told you to crush your eyes that shade' ... Brilliant ... I ahve line envy wish i wrote it lol love and hugs Jayne x x
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Quillsvein1

16 years 4 months ago

thank you seren

and Brian! I'm sorry it took so long for me to respond but my computer is acting funny (again). Best Buy is not a cure all. And Brian: I *was* intrepid. lol. This is an experience I had as a teenager after unwisely accepting a geltab of LSD from a friend in a shopping mall. I was just running around talking to people I didn't know. GB
weirdelf

weirdelf

16 years 4 months ago

hey quill, I found this more scary than funny

thank god I never tripped in a mall! I can see it clearly but to someone who hadn't tripped... may come off as just poetic reality... not that I would bank on the difference. Cheers, Jess, reprehensibly irrepressible
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Quillsvein1

16 years 4 months ago

True

Jess---it's only funny in retrospect. GB