"Legalization," A Poetry Post

Once they legalize all the illicit drugs--
the PCPs and the LSDs and the
crack and coke and meth to smoke,
marijuana and every potent plant used to
get men high in our times--
all ya'll drug dealers gone need
something else to do.

Seems like ya'll should get ahead.
We'll need thousands more morticians for
thousands more dead and
addiction specialists for
those who can't cope and
suicide prevention workers for
those who lose hope and

Legitimate psychiatrists for
those who lose their minds and
divorce lawyers and counselors for
those who lose their wives and

Workforce rehab workers for
those who lose their jobs and
social services workers for
those who lose their homes and their
kids and their families to
nights that they get high

We gone need thousands of police men
to pull 'em over when they drive and
a whole force of growers just to
grow they drugs in fields and
a whole mess of scientists to
get them maximum yield and

A whole new crew of tax collectors to
collect the government's due and
a whole new chain of undergrad schools
for drug dealers like you.

If you go legal now,
you'll probably get ahead.

-T. D. James-Moss