what bad is karma?

st. louis youth convention
1995
kids gathered christ in hearts
i skimmed the streets for happenings
found purfume salesman
stole his orange backpack
3 bottles of aspen
dumped behind
public toilet
later lost my new watch
given by mom for christmas

2003 new
york to utah with band
of brothers
played soul house in conneticut
never saw the real stage
show held in basement
of shakesparean theatre
costume room upstairs
donned wigs and smoked
virginia slims- filters ripped
to the fag city lights of ruralia
stole musical equipment there
three days later lost it
in the wake of new england
flash floodstorm

liquored
three days ago
rude to jen
and street patrons at argentine
swordfish
whole lottsa sangria
flan con creme de dulce
hurled guts
and shit at same time
3am as the cats
stood by watching

haven’t paid taxes yet
what’ll happen now?
maybe car stolen
uninsured on Mildred St.
two weeks before
i drive to vegas
to sell it tax free