- Judah Berl
9/27/2024
"If this is any indicator of the quality of this establishment’s products, the last product I purchased I ended up using immediately when I got home and it opened my heart and mind to the world so much so that I wrote this love poem to Vape and CBDream:
Elegy to Vape & CBDream
Gary Payton nicknamed me on my porch,
I became a horse in the bathroom mirror.
Back out the back door, Gary gave me
what I wanted since 18, & a hug
the size of cookie dough balls
my sister would roll. Back to the mirror
to hear what a horse would say
to itself. Today it rained & you thought
& I laughed & same time we blinked,
that split second of black was enough
for both of us. Today I guess it rained
& a human was there to condemn the sky,
shake a fist at every high thing, shake
water off a back without wings. I’ve heard
a lot of lost-tooth stories in my day, maybe
we’re all the same, maybe I just tend
to keep around the kind who’d bust teeth.
A ketamined horse looks at me to say
I wasn’t born violent. Yet the sky lets me,
lets clouds, & clouds let fall a substance
denser than water, to say: I’m liquid-
drowning in a drop, to say: I finally felt rain
in the back of a smoke shop.
(Also I really hope this doesn’t make anything weird when I come in again, which I was in today so soonest would probably be tomorrow hahahaha) (yall are seriously the best though <3)"