They Drugged Me Poem by Barry Middleton

I know they drugged me
I woke up and I was old
I don't know who did it

I snuck into the drive in
back in nineteen sixty five
beneath a navy blanket

I went to sleep under there
when I opened my eyes
the first divorce was final

time did not slip away
it died in a train wreck
on the way to Illinois

the palm trees in heaven
look just like Florida
but I never found an angel

I know they drugged me
life flashed before my eyes
so I must have been alive