Crank (Crank 1)

“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.