Waffle Iron Vase Jug
by Felix Barbone
from the news
The building was falling apart
and a calamity had been locked out
A large plastic food jug was
stuck on a black bear’s head for weeks on end
and we saw everyone flipping out
If you do the math that could
be a thousand pretty notorious
synthetic marijuana overdose parties
A hiker found the skull in a swamp
after drinking a beer hale and hearty
With a crowbar in hand
knee deep in basement muck
Stripped away much of the second floor
using a rare octagonal hockey puck
A catacomb of rooms for dancing
and raves was too much
enticement for illegal drug lanes
Because a drug trafficker plotted
to move U.S. bound cocaine between South
and Central America with submarines and planes
A man has been sentenced to 15 years in prison
for killing his mother with a vase
blaming K2 Spice for his being in a haze
The kid next door
killed the lady down the street
When the police arrived
They caught him chewing on her feet.
Felix Barbone is a poet, musician and trained ethnologist.
