Crank (Crank 1)
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“I don’t see what’s so
awful about that!”
Ask the adoptive parents. I’d tell you
to ask the baby, but you can’t.
Seems Robyn’s friend wasn’t really
ready to be a mommy.
“So … what? She gave the baby
up for adoption, after all?”
She went on a three-day bender. The
baby’s crying drove her nut buckets.
Seems, arm in arm with the monster,
Mommy shut the baby up.
For good.
Snow Began to
Snow Day
No plows, no buses,
no school, nothing to do but fret.
I picked up the newspaper.
There, headlining Local News:
MAJOR DRUG BUST
with a picture of Roberto
in a sporty pair of cuffs,
followed by a daunting exposé—
La Eme and the crank epidemic.
Plus, in Sierra Living
a complementary piece
outlining the horrors of meth:
How it eats big holes in the brain, destroys
the pleasure center. How it shows up
in X rays as big black dead spots spoiling gray matter.