Lease
by Stapleton Nash, Regular Contributor
On a train to Newark once
my great aunt harangued two Seventh Day Adventists
on their honeymoon,
told them what not to see
on Broadway.
Sitting again with Amtrak pizza
She told me about LSD.
She said,
There are seven levels in the mansion of heaven.
Meditating gets you up to three;
Orgasm gets you up to four;
LSD gets you all the way up to six;
let dying take care of the rest.
I don’t know about mansions but
I wonder what level it is when
I wake up in my bed
and see only
clear skies
and smell
no smells.
