New Amphetamine Shriek

I was young
& invincible
like you once
too Took handfuls
of pills just
to see what
would happen.
My favorite
song of the
late 60's was
Over Under Sideways
Down Clapton
cutting riffs
before he was
Clapton. The band
was the Yardbirds
David Hemmings steals
the guitar fret
from in the movie
“Blow Up” but you
wouldn't know
about that either
I would have
tried anything
twice back then,
hell, you could
get handfuls of
high grade speed
for less than 20
beans, do triple
doubles and not
even think about
sleeping, Man,
it was wild having
to drink a fifth
of Scotch just
to even out &
sex, Man, well
all I can say is

all that rocket
fuel makes you
Strong Like Bull…
coming down
though was a
drag but who
thought about that?
when you're young
you can conquer
anything, but Man,
crashing was like
waking up as
Frankenstein's
monster with
the peasants all
around you in
revolt bearing
torches, trying to
burn you out
& all you can do
is scream your ass
off because no way
were you going
to escape



slum goddess

Maybe she
thought that
if she main-
lined enough
stuff, dressed
like some kind
of resurrected
Warhol star
and strutted her
stuff up & down
McDougal Street,
she'd be anointed
the Official Slum
Goddess of the
Lower East Side,
or maybe she'd
get so strung
out, so hyper
no one would
notice or care
what she did
until she dressed
up as some low
budget super girl,
and did a swan
dive from the top
floor of some
closed-for-the-
duration tenement
high rise to see
if the stash of
super balls sewn
into her garments
and bundled in
her cowl would
make her landing soft
make her rebound
as high as she
felt, as high
as the moon.