SWEET SIMPLICITY

 

Stormed the gates of heaven

Passed out

At the very gates of hell

Lived to tell about it

Gods grace thus far

My how I remember

Blowing chunks

Grooving to Grand Funk

Sweet taste of simplicity

Teenage obligations

Financial insecurity

Mississippi’s finest

Red Barn dollar draft

Milk jug pure

Boiled shrimp

Midnight fast food runs

Bayou water skiing

Among the cotton mouths

Old Mozart’s boat

I jackknifed his trailer

Just a hair more sober than he

Smiling as he cussed

Petit Bois Island

Reeling in the blue fish

Mosquito Pterodactyls

Bombing with the sand fleas

Sleeping under the stars

Dreaming of conditioned air

Red Hot Chicken

Friday Night Football

Pizza time at Shakey’s

Drunken Winter Formals

Trusty flask of Jim Beam

Greg decked that poor dude

Quick right hook

Straight into the urinal

Old faithful

The Grey Ghost

Eight Track tunes

I mastered the stick shift

Cruising with a clutch

Boredom

My bitter nemesis

Such a giant world

Beyond Mobile Bay

Chess King Bell bottoms

Matching mood ring

Cold Bud at Fandango

Water turned to wine

As did stale urine

Behind the blue dumpster

Sand filled seaweed

Johnnie Winter riffs

Hot Tropics magic

Suburban existence

Ripping up the lip

Wiki Tan aroma

BLAB TV with Hound Dog

Young Tony Hawk

Slipping him some beers

What the hell said Tina?

“You’re crazy Billy Ray”

Buckets filled with rain

I love the rain my friends

Altered state of mind

Dreaming of the good old daze

Doesn’t bring them back

Still I’m pressing on

Rising from the dead again

Despite my brokenness

I’m grateful evermore

Kicking down the hidden door

Another lonely nocturne

My aging soul

Burns for completion

 

 

© Bill Grimes Jr. 2009

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Reviews

[SPINNING ON that dizzy ..]

Well written! I could almost hear the pages of the photo album turning or maybe more like peeling the layers of an onion!!! how's that? haha.. I certainly nodded at a few as if I might have been doing the same let's say.... semi-badness at the same time! haha... We do, we learn - we grow....

Good one!

Kath