Letting It All Hang Out

Below the gray blah canopy Suffering from bad attitude and seasonal psychosis The human race sprints No finish line required and Everyone wins gold Music blaring Bikini tops daring Exposed guts not caring Rooftop gogo dancer staring At me Ok, maybe that's vice versa Its a poolside, post-graduate MTV Spring Break Some of us much more "post" than others The glaze and haze of Vegas Sprawling in the manner built for Caesar Decadence is the Neighborhood Watch Where every citizen is On patrol On Patron All far gone Judgment By them or ourselves Left town for lent Or excommunicated at the stake Where loungers and readers And tricksters and treaters are one Tighter than conjoined twins playing with crazy glue in Texas heat And the ways that used to be And the ways we wish there were And the ways we can rent by glass Are included in the price of admission Guilt not included As everyone drops their towels Hoping for someone to pick them up. (9/7/13)