JAMESON, AT 24
"What's wrong with you?
Go away!" he screamed
out the window
I said
What? What is it?
"The young voices."
WHAT HAPPENED
He picked out carefully
and put on a Blondie record
Danced crazily to the entire song
After
I said Jameson,
That is the most incredible thing I've seen in my life
THIS IS LIKE
Where you're a professional dancer
A great dancer
and in the future the people say
What ever happened to that dancer
He was so great
Why did he ever stop dancing
And it cuts back
to this moment
to this dance
where you lose the bag of weed
from dancing and you say
That's it
I'm never dancing again
ABOUT THE LOST WEED, SPECIFICALLY
We comforted each other
Don't worry
You're not like that
You didn't throw your weed
from your dance
We made up words
No, I didn't check behind the shim
I checked behind the little shim
We theorized
I think it blew out the window
literally like the lightest feather
We practiced radical acceptance
Look at it this way
if we hadn't lost the weed
I would be without a muse
Courtney Bush lives and works in Brooklyn, NY. She likes making poems and little movies with her friends.