He Awoke

from "MR VICED HONEST / STEVE RICHMOND" EP by Mike Daily

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He awoke, he wrote. Opened the curtains. Watched 6 or 7 pelicans—graceful—sweeping over the Pacific. Terrific! he wrote. Why go anywhere? And he didn't. Save select cafés and the Methadone clinic.

He lived alone in a rent-controlled bungalow and wrote poems on an antique Smith-Corona. He drew poisonous arachnids on the backs of envelopes and scored dope.

He was one of the most ignored poets in America according to the Los Angeles Free Press. Antonin Artaud meets Edgar Allan Poe in a morphine drip dream in distress.

He had a Zapatista streetsweeper mustache, smoked crack in Pyrex glass, and signed books for all his favorite waitresses and baristas. He fiended for one in particular from Sweden.

He called himself a mistake, worse than an abortion, and reportedly got his first hit of acid from Jim Morrison. He said it was a purple wafer the size of a Life Savers. Should he break it in half?

The Lizard King laughed. "No, man. Take the whole thing."

They were less than friends, more than acquaintances, at UCLA then Jim got famous. What've you been doin'? Just makin' money. What've you been doin'? Just makin' music. What've you been doin'? Just makin' candles. What've you been doin'?

He called himself a blunt instrument, worse than a candelabra, and reportedly got his fourth hit of acid from a psychedelic Sinatra. He said it was a sugar cube from a Woodstock guru. Should he break on through?

"No, man. Go to the emergency room."

They were less than friends, more than acquaintances, at UCLA then Jim got famous. What've you been doin'? Just makin' money. What've you been doin'? Just makin' music. What've you been doin'? Just makin' candles. What've you been doin'?

The lids he got from the shaman were not exactly chronic.

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from "MR VICED HONEST / STEVE RICHMOND" EP, released September 9, 2009

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Mike Daily Oregon

Mike Daily is an author, journalist, zinemaker, and co-founder of the Plywood Hoods Freestyle BMX Trick Team. Daily's new novel, Moon Babes of Bicycle City (4/3/20, "Second Printing Forever") is available now from Amazon.