twentyseventeen

i'm 73 and i bought drugs
says grandpa stepping off
the Colfax sidewalk into
the 7-11 where we got
cool drinks and reemerged
into the blaring Colorado
sun and it was a nice day
off to buy medicine with
your mom's dad and i'm
glad to be the shepherd
on shopping trips and
rip chickenshit klansmen
with him and admire
the fine glasswork
an afternoon in twenty
seventeen if i've ever seen one