POEM - The Lightning Room

Remember that time I went back

Took Barz to visit my old haunts

Trying to marry my two lives

Ended up at the house of strange girl

That Barz had meet tubing on the Salt

He got sick and crashed there

Sent me off to have fun

I found Fletch again

Like I always try to do

Ended up in strangeness as well

Picked up that redhead kid

The one who smoked to much

And was too proud of his light fingers

I had my grandpa’s truck that we inherited

When he had passed away a few months back

And a desire to live my old life

Tempe was a safe world

Compared to the wilds of Tucson

We did it up right

Hit all the old haunts

Grandma Tony’s hadn’t changed yet

Played the pin ball for a few rounds

Downed a slice and a cola

Headed to the mall

Other things had changed though

No one was friends anymore

That redhead kid shoplifted too much

I was distracted by the distance of time

Hoping I’d remember where I left Barz

I dumped my playmates downtown

Bid farewell and said goodbye

To old friends and everything else

Found my way into the foothills

Enjoyed the evening in a stranger’s house

Reclined in the lightning room upstairs

My new friend beside me

Watching the evening Tucson sky light up