By Ishmael von Heidrick-Barnes / San Diego Free Press
MY FAMILY THINKS I’M A POT FARMER
Got to wonder
if my family has a contact high
when they call out of purple haze
to ask if I’m a marijuana farmer
Hydroponically speaking
I don’t have a pot to piss in
not that I’m opposed
to organic chemotherapy
or the buzz of tax revenues
instead of drug wars
Must be the long hair of poetry
that made them hallucinate
buds on balcony
I haven’t lit a bowl
since midnight movies
at The Strand
where the ’60’s
kept on tie-dying into trickle down poverty
way before I went to seed
smoking, “the opiate of the masses”
Maybe I should read between the lines
on their mirrors
What if
they got the munchies and are phishing
for a quick fix?
Jonesing
because they sold themselves out
to America’s wet dream?
Most of my family hit the wall on Wall Street
after inhaling too much of the green stuff
while their city streets
were overtaken by weed
Better to get stoned
than to stone their own flesh and blood because they are living
lives of noisy desperation
chasing five lanes of highway
speeding toward another fiscal
cliff
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Wow. (and Gulp!)