Poem for Bill Forbes

We were in high school together…

boarding, so, we lived together.

He took LSD by himself there.

He was a Zoroaster, that still is cool.

I first got stoned with him after we 

graduated..at the summer theatre

at the high school…it was cool.

AND heard Sgt. Peppers there 

first then…..(I said “I can’t breathe!”

he said  “You are breathing!” then,

I got it.) We went onto a roof, shot

bottle rockets onto the street below….

disrupted traffic. 

His father had a factory….made soles

for shoes.

Bill joked that he worked in his Father’s 

house…saving soles….no joke…he gave

me a Zoroaster name  “Mek”, meaning spider.

He killed himself.

Yeah,  that’s all.