In the Rockaway

Blaze the trail, but remain incognito,
The Doctors told me from photocopied
Scripts. Do you find yourself staring
Long and having grandiose thoughts

During sunsets? To which I replied,
I believe the hash was laced with soap,
And evening never cautioned me
Against adding Yirgacheffe to my pint

Of warm milk. Am I going to die
If I fall asleep? Would have blown
My cover. So I told them I awoke
An acquantance at the witching hour

And forced him to listen to Cake’s
Most recent LP on the thirteenth floor
Overlooking a blackened suburb
Of columns and chic Clydesdales

Clouding the view of copper roofs
With their expensive farts.
As the epiphany struck me
That all air is poison and elevators

Make everything OK. As I shredded
The prescription and its bag, I asked
The passing carriage, Am I supposed

To involve a machete,
and keep to the woods?

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