Smack Thompson Poems

Yeah I gots -a facebook-
THIS IS HOMELESSNESS IN THE 21ST CENTURY! (Buck Rodgers Styley!)

But that's not the point.
...

We used to sit and drown in our
sorrows and chase it with a bottle of whiskey
and the room would spin
like a washing machine
...

Drank too
much whiskey
went to shoot Tommy Perkins
...

Everyone says they'll never do it
but most give in

Lining up the young/pretty boys
...

She told me she'd love me
Tonight at least but. maybe forever.

She said it with that Jack Daniels lazy slur on her tongue
...

Great Grandma married Great Grandpa
poor Irish girl and poor Indian man
Great Grandma
used to get beat by Great Grandpa's mom
...

Don't loan money to Tommy Perkins
or that little short gal Lana he's beating on
He'll never pay it back
and she'll just give it to Tommy
...

I used to be part of the grunge scene here
now I'm just grungy. You could kinda
tell which ones of us were hanging on for dear life
and which ones were just hanging on to the scene
...

The boys hit the girls
and the boys hit other boys
the boys grow up and got guns
the girls too
...

The moon creeps over Mt Rainier
with a treacherous orange glow
from nearby forest fires
...