RUNNING WATER, DROWNING MAN

Memphis shone its light,

Through your smoke and your window. Your urges carried you, fully clothed, in to the running water. Gone.

A white horse on a white screen. Found you levitating and,

Suddenly you were conscious, Mounting the horse, you serenaded, And pranced off.

Memphis gave you silence

It gave you death and spirit. It trampled a million hearts _ By taking only one.

I was one of those million hearts who felt deceived, angry, and loved. . We all carry a crown, crowns of shit” Crowns of gold, crowns of muscle, Crowns of weakness.

A drug habit, trembling flesh.

_ Aconfidence meter that read: 0. You, although perished, brought life to me. ~ And persuaded me to live it.

So now I smoke, I drink, I eat, I cry I am one of a million crown wearing,

Angry young men. Memphis will never take the most eminent piece;

Your guiding suffrage.

Dennis Ellsworth