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Johnny Marijuana

Gotta find a new way

To scribble the pencil on paper

To draw letters and words

Sentences and paragraphs

Chapters and books

Because there's just too much going on

In my mind

It's like a cement mixer filled with rock and mud

Turning 'round and 'round

Mixing that **** into concrete

You can put your hands on the spread product

And the imprint will dry in the block

Forever for to contrast the size of your hand today

With the size of your hand in 25 years

(Barring a catastrophe that demolishes the concrete)

 

Always hoped my mind would be a deep well into which could be thrown a cavalcade of essentials,

Knowledge, wisdom

Intellect

I've kept my mind open for them

And yet they weigh me down

They make me feel awful, like being squeezed across the chest by the not particularly strong arms of an aging circus  sideshow barker

 

Take what you will

Lighten my load

For Gods sake take the fear

Of being happy without feeling this ominous depression

 

This is the point where I rail against how unfair it is that in Colorado and a few other enlightened states marijuana is given due credit for it's medicinal propensities while 10 hours away in Oklahoma you can still be thrown in jail for possessing even a small amount.

 

People, scoff if you will

I need medicinal marijuana

I know that nothing else is going to bring me a modicum of joy such as it has for so many years

 

And I know it's wrong to be more excited about hooking up than in communing with God, meditating and contemplating on His Holy Name.

It's wrong

It's got to be a sin, obsessing about ***

While my desire for God wanes and

Flutters like a flag at a losing race

I'm sorry I feel this way

But I do

O Jesus I trust total honesty

Means a lot more to you

Than puttin' on the show

Pasting phony smiles

and lying, making out like their love for Someone they've never seen is consuming them with the same passion had it been a new boyfriend or a special girlfriend with flesh and blood and sinew and tendon and breathing heart and beating lung

Speaking words

Emitting odors

Skin to pinch

Glorious laughter in your ears

Guffawing at your stupid jokes, she likes you!

Mikey liked you, dear, I know that means a lot

Maybe ask them if they want to go see God with you

But if they don't you'll be disappointed

And if you're as depressed as I am

You'll stay home and hope they'll decide to hang with you

 

Because there's too much information

There are too many idiots walking the terra of this country

Too much misunderstanding

Too much pressure

Too much unloving intolerance

Too many headaches

Too much wringing of the hands.

Mister, you wouldn't recognize Jesus on the street if He personally placed your hand in His side

You don't want to know him, do you?

The Truth is a terrifying concept

Don't get too close to it, get burned by the light

You can't handle the truth, afraid you'll see it in the mirror

So you hoist the beam from both your eyes

Because someone said if you did that you could judge rightfully

But you didn't get that the beam wasn't a literal object , that it in fact could not be removed

None but the Christ Ever had the right to judge you

He judges from love, always seeing the value in the man, long past forgiven all sins

But they'll run from Him

I think he'll giggle, knowing they'll eventually come around

Maybe he'll have to show them

But for right now I don't see Him

My faith may be weak

But I need some ******* relief

I have a feeling He wouldn't mind

If nothing else He'd be pleased that it made me feel like living again

 

Scuse me while I load a bowl

Let me get a few tokes

Then you come back

And I guarantee you'll notice

A much friendlier, social man

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Sep 25, 2015
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