Acid Rodeo

the first good day of spring
in the mountains
and we all got
ripped on acid
with whiskey chasers
here and there
some bands were playing at
an abandoned rodeo arena
and somehow
we got there
without hitting
any hallucinations
we each bought a pitcher
and waded through the beer soaked dirt
a few cops
and thousands of people
tripping their brains out
under a clear sky
things turned crazy
as they always do
even the mountains
made a statement or so
just to keep things in perspective
the bands came and went
and the crowd
was gone
the wind
up and blew away
it was wild
Doug Kershaw and topless women
and a bass player hit in the face
with a jug of Oly
never missing a beat
when the music stopped
we climbed in a pickup
for the ride back to town
four wheel drive this time
over the top of a Cadillac
roof crushed down
we kept going
to a bar
late and fluorescent bright
scrambled eggs and fried brains
shots of whiskey and
another rodeo down the drain