Well-tanned
Seasoned locals
Fondly known as “Crackers”
Call them “Square Grouper”
Buoyant bales indeed
Sandy
Salty seaweed
Cherished
Quite affordable
Staple of the Woodstock Generation
Hippie Culture Nation
When $35.00 U.S.
Could buy a garbage bag
No exaggeration
Pungent smoke libation
Neptune’s favored bounty
Alms from the sea
Found bobbing lazily
In the Gulf of Mexico
Miles of dense Mangroves
Due west of Everglades City
A sacred place
Home to 10,000 Islands
A smugglers wet dream
My mind drifts to 1977
Fabled wasted years
A blur of resonance
Spatial circumstance
Sock Hop slow dance
Jim Beam
Testosterone
Teenaged stab at romance
Jimi fucking Hendrix
Captain Zig Zag
Mysterious Sea Hag
Velvet Black Light Posters
Heroes of the day
My foggy
Twisted way
Lighting up with my Professor
Partaking of the herb
Twisting dovetail joints
Exploring deeper points
Mother Nature’s verbs
No need to mention names
Old Shell Road parking lot
Sentimental slipknot
Such silly battles fought
When they called me Billy Ray
Badge of honor
Scarred my bony knees
Sentimental breeze
“Thank you”
“Yes Ma’am”
“Please”
Shag Carpet burns
Senior Class interns
All eager
To taste the latest cure
Tribal knowledge gained
Friendships
Trusted
Pure
Righteous times for damn sure
Lava Lamps
Incense
Erotic Patchouli
A Pirate Looks at 40
Mr. Buffet’s finest work
Fascinations quirk
Red Dragon perks
Me
I’m just a word man
Not interested in plunder
Only art you see
Sacred poetry
Tongue in cheek soliloquy
Allows me
To simply be
Psychedelic Galaxy
Broadway candlelight
Illusion of youth
I swear to tell the truth
I’m incapable this day
To condone corporate lust
So sue me if you must
Myriad of change
Perhaps I’ve grown a bit deranged
My destiny
Prearranged
I dig spontaneous nothingness
So stumble on I must
In quiet solitude
Melancholy mood
Instinctual aptitude
Not jerked to life by hidden strings
Or shiny, gilded things
My music loudly rings
Such peace and joy it brings
Dear esteemed reader
Take me with a salty grain
I choose not to refrain
From the soapbox I inherit
My credentials
Hide my merit
Moonlit Jubilee
Shores of gentle Fairhope
Creatures of the sea
Advance in droves
Like Biblical
Fishes and loaves
Mystical Showtime
My deepest soul
Origins nomadic
Hardly democratic
I focus on sporadic
In He Dog sized doses
Brain dead scoliosis
Textbook Neurosis
For “crazy” after all
Requires a massive set of balls
To speak of things forbidden
Which intrigue me at my core
The true essence of my call……..
© Bill Grimes Jr. 2012
