Pumpkin Days I

I started wearing a pumpkin on my head
It was hard to fall asleep
so the days got longer 
walk with palms to the world
show my neck 
hope somebody will come by & try something
know that they won’t
 

A guy at the bus stop
tells me he’s got a job for me
if I need work 

 

The next day
we meet at the lake 
& skip stones
with the rain coming down

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He throws one that you’d have to say got 14 or 15 hops in it 
I throw one so hard it tears the lake in half 
& puts all the rain back to wherever it came from in the first place

 

he says ok
you’re the boss

 

I pay him $5

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He says that’s less than minimum wage

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The pumpkin & my head hang loose towards the earth, 
where they both wanted to be anyway