LINDA KNOWS BEST
Linda wants to give her 5 year old boy
marijuana
so he’ll have more of an
appetite.
The doctors don’t understand why he
won’t eat,
he’s just a skinny little
kid.
Linda is spaced out and whacko
and so is her husband
who I’ve met before,
both pot smokers all their
lives,
they think pot will
save the world, think it leads
to salvation, wisdom, peace.
Linda is fat and has a strange
complexion
like old cantaloupe.
She brings a bag of potato chips with her to
munch on in the cab while I drive her and
her son
to his doctor’s appointment.
Stupid
doctors,
she says, they don’t know
shit.
A lady is walking with her daughter
on the sidewalk by
Linda’s apartment
and the little daughter takes a tiny
step out into the street
before the mother
grabs her,
but there is no real
danger.
Linda screams from the open window
of the cab:
NICE FUCKING PARENTING SKILLS!
Jesus Christ, she says to
me, some people shouldn’t be allowed
to have kids!
Her son sits in the back Seat
and smokes his
thumb.
Linda wants to give her 5 year old boy
marijuana
so he’ll have more of an
appetite.
The doctors don’t understand why he
won’t eat,
he’s just a skinny little
kid.
Linda is spaced out and whacko
and so is her husband
who I’ve met before,
both pot smokers all their
lives,
they think pot will
save the world, think it leads
to salvation, wisdom, peace.
Linda is fat and has a strange
complexion
like old cantaloupe.
She brings a bag of potato chips with her to
munch on in the cab while I drive her and
her son
to his doctor’s appointment.
Stupid
doctors,
she says, they don’t know
shit.
A lady is walking with her daughter
on the sidewalk by
Linda’s apartment
and the little daughter takes a tiny
step out into the street
before the mother
grabs her,
but there is no real
danger.
Linda screams from the open window
of the cab:
NICE FUCKING PARENTING SKILLS!
Jesus Christ, she says to
me, some people shouldn’t be allowed
to have kids!
Her son sits in the back Seat
and smokes his
thumb.