Grandma the Drugdealer
In every neighborhood and on every snow-covered street
In this great big frozen land
Resides forty grandmas
Willing to lend a hand
Filling up the bottle with rot-gut whiskey
For all the men too old to justify
Reinvention in a world turned upside down.
Staggering, barely upright in the snow.
It's only noon and no place to go.
The police don't care, and the kids just laugh
As they come home from school across that path.
The selling day's through, and the grandma puts up her still.
Soup with meat greets her at dinnertime.
Moral questions here scatter to the wind
Once you consider the shape she'd been in.
Copyright © James Townsend | Year Posted 2016
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