The Golem of Los Angeles

The Sermon on Drugs

84 The Sermon on Drugs 1. Lecture on Illicit Drugs i lie down in the bed and feel as though i am free falling or that time is flying through me. i watch the room contort and flow in strange geometries. Although i’m trying to get up, gravity it seems is turned to “high,” and all my bones are golden. Now my friends are permafried. Now they have burned their brain cells out, they speak too fast or slow. They corner you or sit themselves and rock in corners at a party. They tell you they’ve learned the road of excess leads to hope or wisdom, something like that. What a crock. it’s just a spider thread that ties us to the earth. i think we need a stronger rope. 2. Remembering His College Daze Wake up bright youth with neurons granular as eye goop cereal! Some way to start the day, with acid indigestion, fart, and stretch as i traverse the dorm to far Men’s Bathroom with its bluesy door, jet through last night smells past passed-out and beer-breathing and lounged-across-the-lounge-couch-stutteringsnores -alta-forte-on-the-nose-trumpet Mike, the half-dead football halfback, once busted for dealing coke and two schools later here, 85 cleaned up, if somewhat alcoholic, beer can smushed against his head, his face encrusted with ugh. Not me. Unzip, watch Willie dangle, an acrobat in air, my carnal angel. 3. Lecture while Hiking in the Angeles Crest Wilderness with a Group of College Students What’s the difference between a poet and a large pizza? A large pizza can feed a family of three. Ba-dum-dum! Do i have your attention yet? The fountains are louder at night. it takes a mind of darkness to know them. i think you need to learn to shush. Students, you need some face time with your souls. i heard you talking about me last night, “The prof’s about to shit a cold purple twinkie!” Then you yorked out the vodka and Red Bull, crashing through poison oak. Students, today you got stoned in your tent, then hiked through the wilderness singing Disney songs and parsing the difference between bodacious secretaries and nurses in tight white tops. 86 Students, eternity is bent. The world is without meaning. Do you know you will be crushed like a beer can? The human fish wriggles and wriggles with happiness, biting at a hidden hook. ...