Monday, November 21, 2011

Where Did Miss Mary Jane Go?

Sitting on the tan, gritty, apartment carpet;

Jimi Hendrix’s plays softly from the iPod

hooked up to ratty craigslist bought speakers.

Lighters scattered like mice throughout the

smoky space. Clicks of fire fill the room with

tiny fireworks of power enforced energy.

Expansion of your mind takes you to unknown

universes of toilet water swirling rainbow colors.

a simple creative outlet, but the smoke clears out,

billowing from the stacks of the bourgeois society.

The crystals of green disappear, the haze has been

lifted. My rebel phase has come and gone. Another

stiff in corporate America where 4:20 is replaced

by nine to five, nine to five, nine to five.

Will Miss Mary Jane ever poke her leafy, psychedelic,

earthy figure out again? Or are we trapped within

the box, a mime to society? Eyes of defeat, tension

building… suit and tie, suit and tie, suit and tie.

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