it seems i spend all my
time working and cleaning house
when i’m not staring out the window at
the trees dancing on a thunderstorm wind while
taking a hit from what may be
my fourth or fifth joint of the day
it’s easy to lose track at four or five
i mean
it’s not the dancing trees that take the hit
that is
i’m sure i work
the trees are dancing
i’m taking hits
that’s a window
and there’s cleaning to be done
(Copyright 2023 by Tetman Callis.)
i am having the most
incredible high right now
i know the validity
of any statement made
while the maker is in such a state
is suspect
but i’ve been getting some intense
rushes
off this little roachy remainder
of a joint of roach-doap—
oops—
doaped-on-a-roap
giggle me timbers
i’ll have another hit
(Published in High Street: Lawyers, Guns & Money in a Stoner’s New Mexico (2012, Outpost 19); copyright 2023 by Tetman Callis.)
“It is from great foolishness that persons blinded by love of wealth always desire to make a partition of their patrimony. After effecting a partition they fight with each other, deluded by wealth. Then again, enemies in the guise of friends cause estrangements between ignorant and selfish men after they become separated in wealth, and pointing out faults confirm their quarrels, so that the latter soon fall one by one. Absolute ruin very soon overtakes the separated.” – The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Vol. I, Astika Parva of the Adi Parva, trans. Pratap Chandra Roy