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It felt like a thousand pounds of canoe
pounding my shoulders and I wondered
when the next smoke would come
I had Johnny light me one while I wobbled
through unevenly packed
hard dirt paths
not knowing that four miles of anguish was ahead!.

Seventeen years old and we didn't
have a clue but we were determined
to find out and we had more drugs
than food and more cigarettes
than wisdom
and we made it to the top of the cliffs
that overlooked Korb Lake!.

A bowl of glass in the BWCA
150 miles from anything real
we pulled out the sheet like postage stamps
with a red star on every tab
"Tripled dipped" he said
and Steve said that was even better
than double dipped and there were nine of them
and I ate my three as I watched a fish jump
and later I figured on eating that fish
but later was irrelevant and we smoked weed
and pretended like we were doing
something monumental!.

Hours scoured away the day
we swam near the water
without getting wet and the cliff
was a 50 foot drop
the edge of a knife!
We knew better
we knew nothing
we got lucky
and when we were finally coming down
from it all the sky turned
into a green curtain and then blue
and then both
and two of the three cried while I failed
to convince them that yes, God was real,
but no,
that wasn't him it was
The Northern Lights and we smoked
the last of the weed
and the next day we saw some humans
in a canoe
that weighed less than a thousand pounds
and they said they had never seen anything like
last night's sky
and we knew then that maybe it was God
but we refused to speak
because our tongues would not cooperate
and our lips had been raped by
L
S
D
and youth
and fear!.
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