my first LSD thanksgiving

[revolutionR]

Thanksgiving 67' the anniversary of my first LSD trip
I gave thanks for my expanding mind
I dropped a green cap with my high school friend
It was just me and him that night, we listened
to music on the turntable, Leonard Cohen made
our trip mellow, then we went for a mad ride
in his brother's sport car under the stars, laughing
at the shear simple pleasure of it all, the flood of stars
that night was my entrance into the rabbit hole, it was fun
innocent marvel at the flowing tapestries of color and pattern
I had my young life ahead of me, and this was just my first trip

my psychedelic experience began with teenage exuberance
it was the cool thing to do, and i had thought a lot about it
months before I actually took the forbidden drug, the one I read
about in LIfe magazine, there was a head that dropped with his cat
it hadn't been too long before that acid night, that I was getting drunk
as much as I could, I had a lot of angst, I did not feel high school
was doing the trick for me, I was restless, confused, lonely, angry
I was looking for something, but I did not know what it was
the only class in school I liked was art class, I met a cool girl in art class
we talked about beatniks and stuff like that, drew pictures of cool people

I remember at this time a changing, that I had a lot of dark thoughts too
stuff just seemed too mundane, too pat, too normal, too phony, bland
I could not see the future that I was suppose to follow, cheer leaders
did not make me feel the spirit that would lead me to who I would become
I did not get along with my teachers, church on Sunday was boring me silly
There had to be something else to all this thing we call life, some wild light
out there in the wilderness of society, some magic had to exist, besides TV

I don't recall when or how I first heard about LSD, but when I did, that was
all I thought about until that thanksgiving night when I finally got to drop
my motto could have been drop acid, not bombs, as the Vietnam war was
in full swing, but I wanted go in the opposite direction of Johnny get your gun
I was still a kid in so many ways, but I stopped playing toy soldiers suddenly
around the time I really began noticing girls, the first person that I knew
that took LSD was a girl, a young woman that I met one bright day, she
filling my mind with the smell of her patchouli and her paisley journey
it was the summer of love, people were going up to Frisco, Dylan's voice
was in the air like the magic that floated through the scene, the cap was green

[the mingo]

[whoaisme]

"some magic had to exist, besides TV"

yessir i've had this thought quite a bit lately but could never bring it to a fruition of words. so thanks.

i enjoyed your poem. cheers!

[saw]

thanx for the cyber trip....the electronic green cap of memory and experience....and the holidays would never be the same