title: alvis

and all of the sudden
i remember that one boy
i probably knew him earlier in time

stealing a smoke behind the science building
not moving or talking
the only sound the burning tobacco
crackling like firewood, the beautifull deviancy.

he didn't trust me, or maybe he didn't want to
i'm sorry, the corporal stomped on my cigarettes right there
i swear to it. honest.

even then you knew 
something is going on here
always more cautious than me
but getting caught anyway

I wonder where you are now
tired, famished, lonely, dirty.
another victim of society.

no, i'd rather imagine
a smiling face, a happy drunk, 
a giddy addict like myself.

when we meet again
please let me buy you a carton of cowboy killers
though it will never be as satisfying 
as the ones behind the science building

December 1999



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