The Art of Tetman Callis

i was walking by the candy store
when i tripped and stumbled over myself
fell into a sticky-bud bush

lay there for about a week, stuck

it was hard to get up when i had only one free hand
the other gripped by gripping a loaded roachclip

a delightful dark light
an accursed, cursing, curvaceous bitch
my sweet lover, the loaded roachclip

stuck to the bush, flat on my back
i suck on the loaded roachclip, my lollipop

(Published in High Street: Lawyers, Guns & Money in a Stoner’s New Mexico (2012, Outpost 19); copyright 2023 by Tetman Callis.)