while convalescing at the age of 18 from minor foot surgery that nevertheless kept the apprentice poet off his feet for a little more than 4 weeks/
he discovered the frescoes of michaelangelo in a big book his parents didn’t know they owned/
and supplied with a large mess of percodan/ horse pills he called them/ plus cartons of his beloved camels/
focused his attention to late night study/
not knowing what was studied/ buzzed/ ambient air grey and sooty
the tv tuned to reruns of the rockford files
