Acid Trip, Age 14, Fool & Player.
Acid Trip, Age 14
Growling green grass
grabs at my sneakers.
Roaring morning ocean
pummels my eardrums.
Friends fence me in,
cushion my hallucinations,
keep me out of harm's way.
Fool
You are
no reflection
and all
forward movement.
Player
Like lightning,
he never strikes
the same house twice.
Bob Slaymaker's poems and short stories have appeared in
Callaloo, The Christian Science Christian Science, religion founded upon principles of divine healing and laws expressed in the acts and sayings of Jesus, as discovered and set forth by Mary Baker Eddy and practiced by the Church of Christ, Scientist. The church teaches that God is good and the only reality, and that sin, evil, and illness are overcome on the basis of this understanding. Adherents rely on spiritual, rather than medical or material, means for healing. Monitor, Essence, New York Quarterly,
The North American Review, Poetry Ireland Review, River Styx Styx (stĭks), in Greek mythology, river of Hades that the souls of the dead had to cross on their journey from the realm of the living. It was a sacred river, and by its name even the gods took their most solemn oaths. The river was personified as a nymph, daughter of Oceanus and Tethys and mother of Nike., The Texas
Observer, and The US Latino Review. He teaches private writing workshops
in New York City, and has a website at bobslaymaker.com.
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