The festival was fun
but the security
was overbearing and oppressive (quick wink).
I was trying to enter
the festival site
when the security guard
pulled something out of my backpack
and said
“You’re not supposed to have this.”
Then she gently put it
back into my backpack
and said
Ï’m not gonna take it from you.”
So my contraband
wasn’t confiscated
but she did admonish me
to think about what I done.
and I did
dutifully reflect
on what I had done
during each musical act
the entire weekend.
A Simple Instruction
merits great contemplation: What I done, another great title for the autobiography :D slc