On Principal
ADHD has its drawbacks
Like diving headlong
Into a trash bin
Full of colorful shards
Of processed pulp
Proficient hair grab
Betwixt ear and neck
The dark cloak room?
The principal?
Both a slow death
That witch!
A real witch!
With a wart on her tongue
A curious hole in my desk
She taught back then
I knew all the steps
Same four words
‘Why are you here?’
As he turns it 180 degrees
And slides it across the desk
It was massive and black
Heavy Bakelite with a dial
He had massive hands
Jet black hair
Indiscernible face
Like death row
Any delay was a reprieve
No area code
Just 899 on a slow dial
Huge reprieve
2 seconds
2.4 seconds
2.4 seconds
Respectively
Like old friends
Leather straps hold fast
My arms and legs
3 5….5 was a tease
3 2 – double knife switch down
1500 volts delivered…
ABOUT THE ARTIST
A bastard son of a drunken soul. Deemed ‘The Quality Kid’ for being conceived in a Quality Inn during an affair. Known for having thrown his last baby bottle off the Golden Gate Bridge while his parents were on the run. Also Known for having an insatiable need to experience anything new, different, or notable including becoming an on air radio personality, night club dj, pilot school, metal artist, riding with a well known 1% motorcycle club, exploring and photographing abandoned psychiatric hospitals, and eating anything deemed fit for human consumption to list a very few.
0° separated: Jay and the Americans founding member Marty Joe Kupersmith, Peter Cancro, CEO Jersey Mikes and Mikey from Life Cereal.
1° separated: Yes bassist Christopher Squire, Johnny Gotti, President Bush 41 & 43.
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