Laying in a hospital bed
An old friend talking shit
Saying it with dirty lips,
I wasn’t finished being lit..
The memory of thirty years
Past and pissed;
A doctor admitted (consoling)
He’d kissed his kids with sober lips—
I wish I’d listened to his tips.
He convinced me he’d REALLY been there
And now he lived without a care.
Lisa Demb
Street Sheet Vendor
