Bedside

Like a grape’s pride of place

You’re waiting by the bedside 

Can I talk you for a test drive

Dusty bass amp and a full hamper

Walls damp, burning sticks of nag champa

To cover up the stink

We smoke sticky until it’s silent

Some smoke until they’re in the asylum

Spliff longer than a hoplite’s pilum

Mound in the ashtray where we’ve piled ‘em.

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