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Monday, January 9, 2023

Joe Grieco

Buddy’s Vision of The Richter Scale 

 

He was in bed with two women when

The earthquake split the wall behind his headboard

I had warned him, I said

Never put anything in your mouth

Till you finish chewing what you already got

But he was a Big Bite kind of guy, that Buddy

So guapo, so much bao

 

The ladies stood in long love lines and

Like the warm red wax on Maker’s Mark

They melted

They dripped with offerings of cigarettes and shooters

Some cooed that they could cook him huevos rancheros in the morning

 

But the seismic spike of that quake shook his binge to the core

He sobered up quick

And claimed to be retrofitted

He told me relationships were key to his evolution

Relationships and spirituality

From that seven-point-two on

He resolved for sure

Only one stripper at a time

 

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