summer camping 1993 - 1995

...there was this child in penguin slippers 


...he would fly acress the lake 




...as the rest sang camp songs and got high .

LATE AUGUST , MOUNT ALLISON 1978

...it is not the flying into the sun

...that is the tricky part



...it is the jealousy when you come back down that fucks it all up .

SUMMER 1968 , or so

...it was flying ant day

...the little fuckers were everywhere



...but nobody baked a flying ant cake .

CAMP MID. AUGUST , 1979

...the man threw his football in the mud

...jesus threw the universe in the mud



...oh , the mystery behind a messiah and his own personal universe .

LAMARCHANT ST . 1972 or 1973

...i stole a magazine when i was 10 or so...

...i got caught , but , fortunately , his wheel chair wasn't very fast



...faster , sneakier , trickier...all this and much more bullshit...THE NEW RELIGION .

CAMP KIDSTON...1979...it was a different world back then

...we stood around the table to say  grace...


...the christian education director decided to pull my pants down...




...no , i was not wearing underwear...unless your dick is considered underwear .

CAPE BRETON 1974

-i found a frog by the pond

-he was a hopping frog



-i could tell he new about the time i got drunk with grand pa .

me in the bayres road shopping centre , sept . 1979

-they told me scotty r . was dying of leukaemia ...

-they told me a lot of things over the years



...as life simply devolves into another episode of SWAP SHOP .

my brother's death 1986 , september 1

-about a week or two after my brother drowned

-i went swimming in a lake




-...and i could feel his corpse , banging on his bass guitar .