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"Lennie's Porch"

submitted by Smedleys_Butler to SmedleysPorch 7 monthsOct 3, 2023 20:55:54 ago (+1/-0)     (SmedleysPorch)

Can't even escape surveillance
Marooned among the all seeing eyes
Of the trailer park
Staying with an indolent acquaintance
Who's been looking for a roommate

We finish laying stone
Around the deck perimeter
Guess I can't stash beer there
From his neurotic stepmother
A few rows down

Lennie doesn't drink
But he yells at her like he does
And he smokes more than me
Since his guinea pig died

Lennie doesn't ask for much
Unlike her in this temporary situation
Since I had to leave my old porch
- Not from eviction
But an unseen lease renewal
Seems it happened to another tenant
In their non-negotiable contract

Shekel goblins
More people grow claws each day
Whether as crabs in a bucket
Or birds to 'lift you up'

But Lennie doesn't pry
He's going night fishing
Where he drowns autistic rage

Hop on the Ebike
Brakes need tightening
Another long day
I want it
Ride with rush hour traffic
Into the sunset with shades
Another long day
I deserve it
Some truck from the quarry
Spilled riprap on the road
Another long day
But I don't need it


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[ - ] TheOriginal1Icemonkey 0 points 7 monthsOct 3, 2023 23:32:43 ago (+0/-0)

Wow.
A bit disconnected
Like a Kurt poem

[ - ] Smedleys_Butler [op] 0 points 7 monthsOct 3, 2023 23:50:12 ago (+0/-0)

Yeah I wrote it on the fly in my notebook (where it turns into a John Madden play), was kinda distracted watching the Phillies over at my grandparents. Kinda just a stream of consciousness evaluation of life... Every piece is different. Sometimes it's fiction where time traveling alien space ghost of JFk visits Knowlton's rangers at valley forge in 1776... Actually went back to edit a few things, but it didn't change, I guess. Oh well... At least I didn't drink tonight

[ - ] TheOriginal1Icemonkey 0 points 7 monthsOct 3, 2023 23:53:59 ago (+0/-0)

One day at a time bro. One day at a time.

[ - ] Smedleys_Butler [op] 0 points 7 monthsOct 4, 2023 00:02:29 ago (+0/-0)

Oh I'm not quitting, yet. Out sick a few days last week, I wanna be in my prime, even if I don't usually drink as much as I used to. All signs pointed to no.

I'm not used to the text box on here, since I'm still a poal smoker

[ - ] TheOriginal1Icemonkey 0 points 7 monthsOct 4, 2023 05:47:09 ago (+0/-0)

I gave up Poal smoking as well, er I mean, they kicked me off for some thing I did, whatever. Yeah, about the only time I don’t drink beer is when I’m sick. That’s when I get a bottle of brandy or bourbon or some shit.

[ - ] Smedleys_Butler [op] 1 point 7 monthsOct 4, 2023 06:16:38 ago (+1/-0)

Yeah, I had some whiskey last week, well beer too. Too much working in the rain caught up to me.

[ - ] TheOriginal1Icemonkey 0 points 7 monthsOct 4, 2023 06:23:02 ago (+0/-0)

Rain? We just had a half day of it in Nor Cal last week, enough to water the grass and knock the ag dust down.

[ - ] Smedleys_Butler [op] 1 point 7 monthsOct 4, 2023 06:46:45 ago (+1/-0)

Pa got hit good