“Mind, how you go.”
Poem for National LSD Week
Roger McGough
comrade come and populate my inner world
surf on hubris and sledge through debris
the waking world’s in a whiskey-spin
let’s ravish the habitat
where no McTavish is lavish
take literally the littoral abstraction
batter the mad hatters
up
tight outer
site
see how they fly like Lucy
spiders and flies apace a-wing
with liquefying carapaces
dripping liquid quicklime
and quicksilver stalactites
over under
Zeit-ways
down
tango to a marimba band in the clearing house
of the subconscious mind over matter-clatter
(see the mad hatters come back counter-attack)
pogo with plasticine people and jump-back-jim
in cerise scrim zim zalla bim abraca-do-dah…
let the wake bury the wake and the dead men dance!
… don’t be L-seven worry about the whiskey-spin L8r
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