Can Timmy Come Out and Play

i’m addicted to buddy stories
we all have aesthetic vices
harkening to sappy flashbacks
with Norwegian comic books
& homemade foils
in the clichés of preadolescent months
as understandable as stacks of numbers
or the taste of peanut butter on toast
i was to be a chemist
exchange values of building blocks
just around the corner
i’m not always in charge here
maybe this is the summer
i start taking prescription pills