CHRISSY'S ICE CREAM Chrissy you want some ice cream?! Chrissy you want some ice cream?! the only way this mom could get her kid outta the pool was with ice cream Come on get out of the pool and we'll get some ice cream! rewind 40 years earlier to my mom and I Danny, time to get out! Ok mom! and that's the way it should be I'd like to take Chrissy's ice cream and throw it in the pool SWALLOWING CHLORINE the goddam snotty moms were there of course letting the pool water babysit their kids it felt like a fucking family cookout that I wasn't invited to I knew I should've taken some pills before I came to that public pool and drifted in the water looking up at the sky and floating in it but I didn't so I had to look at these goggle faced ill mannered spoiled brats swimming around me like gnats everybody was screaming you'd have thought someone was drowning thing is nobody knew it was me SIREN IN THE POOL LIGHT FUZZ another fucking boring night of light blue ripples of poolwater dumb white lights over steam haze black night snooze and what's left of the cheap beer my wife's been passed out for three hours I drank the good wine in the sun of the afternoon that feels like a thousand days ago I'm listening to some lounge chair bitches trying to show me that what's on their phones is important trying to convince themselves too, I guess I'd like to throw my cousin's flip flops in the pool I hate them so much so dumb rugged casual snob brown probably cost a few people their self esteem a few weak people that is he thinks he's a cowboy with his bud ice hat brim pulled over his eyes pretending to be laid out on the on the range or some shit motherfucker is in marketing! I don't know, I'm hoping the CD will change soon and so will the season I pull my hair back and there she is like little bits of pool of glimmer emerging from underwater I didn't even know anyone was in the pool still I was about to go home but not now she's topless with two hoop piercings on her nipples like two ruby rings I wanna break my teeth on she's making the poolwater boil and I want her to suck me till she gags on my marriage THE FATTEST GUY AT THE POOL I remember being a little kid and staring at the fattest guy at the pool what a brat well anyway, justice is served, because now he's me I'm sure the kids calling each other "retard" have snuck a peek at this stupid gut that has just gone outta control recently it was enough to almost make me wanna not go to the pool but I did when I jumped in the lifeguard said "that looked like total relief" and it was a total baptism of the dead leaves that sat in the pool water all winter and floated around in my head my fat belly even fell off I'm glad she said that too because I may not have noticed otherwise and I like how she said it that in this dead yellow grass world sitting in the sun like dried piss total relief is still possible THE RESIDENT POOL SHITHEAD I was a grouch at the pool a tired hungry burnout burning in the sun and sick of the scene I was going to leave when she entered and there went my misery lost in her bikini ESCABAN CAN’T GO IN THE POOL a little kid asked if Escaban could come in the pool Not without his mother! yelled the little kid’s dad so Escaban couldn’t go in the pool he lingered around the entrance though looking like a stray cat when I exited to go smoke he was still there swinging his arms in frustration don’t feel bad Escaban we’re all standing out there with you in some way or another and the glint off the water is so enticing
