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The plumbing goes South

but everything else

remains North

and that, folks

can cause some problems

and the car is not running

and the Reverend Gary Davis

reads me my last rites

as I face perpetual fire

the typos accumulate

and eventually

it all gets out of hand

the credit card bills

begin to expand

at alarming rates

and I refuse to b e

too good a citizen

try eating a hash brownie

and living up

to my reputation

as the poet of pot

but bills must be paid

and these setbacks

aren’t helping matters

as a few hundred here;

a few hundred there

are sucked in

like water in a drain

but now the water isn’t draining

but neither also

is the money remaining

It gets hard to take

and a beer won’t solver

anything

but it sure would be nice

bad luck will come

and one more thing

in a long line of things

will get fucked up

and it sucks

and my mind can’t

stay focused

on the work at hand

and I’ll hear about it

but better times

are truly sure to rise

somehow, I am ab le

to maintain hope

in spite of all this

learn a lesson

I’m just not sure

what lesson

which is a lesson in itself

and maybe I’ll get it right

one day after all

9-30-98