Smoke 'em If You Can

I still feel the desire
to smoke pot from time to time

Not daily
like I used to
to ease the pain of healing my soul

But just time to time
when the urge hits me

To feel that dive down
into uncontrollable stupidity
where for the first five or ten minutes
I can't put two words together
to form a coherent sentence
then...

I can ride comfortably into whatever activity I so desired:
dancing, watching TV, cooking,
cleaning, laughing, the art of conversation,
reading, walking, riding my bike,
shopping, working, taking the bus...

I could always do anything when high
sometimes better, like my rhythm,
sometimes not,
but it just felt good.

I can drink
if I wanted to
and do occasionally have a beer or a glass of wine

If I wanted,
I could be like my dad
who drank himself to death
all the while working for his money.
That's legal!

If I smoke pot
they random at my work
I could lose my job
so I don't

When I was young
and I would occasionally go to a bar
and most of the time
I would feel the desire to fight
I never did
but the desire was there

When I was high
I just enjoyed life

I can and do enjoy life without it.

And the sex!

Harry Anschlinger
the first drug czar
being a good christian man
hated three types of people.
He hated blacks because they were black humans and not slaves.
He hated Mexicans because they had good times.
He hated jazz musicians because they didn't play good christian hymns.
He noticed these three types of people had one thing in common,
many smoked pot.
Unlike alcohol,
pot wasn't killing them off,
thus he worked much of his career
making marijuana illegal.

And thus
from time to time
I only think of getting high
and just thinking about it is fine
as one doesn't get addicted to the stuff
and thinking about it
doesn't lose me my job.