5150
when
“we”
go crazy
out there
in the wilds
of the
“street”
there is a term
used
by Police and other
“Officials”
members of
The Health Community
The term is:
Fifty one Fifty
That’s the code for
“crazy”
I was riding my bicycle
home from
well
nowhere
to be specific
and home was just
a
bridge
but anyway
I was riding my bike home
and a guy was on
one of the stadium lights at
The Fresno Grizzlies Stadium
“Norm,” the cops were yelling
both from
the ground and over
a bull horn out from
a helicopter circling
the stadium
“Norm. No one wants to hurt you, we want to help you.”
I suspect ‘Norm’ had had quite enough
help for one day
Norm was what we would call 5150
Eventually Norm came down
but not before he tossed a rope down
and began
doing a Tarzan
and swinging from the rope
“fifty one fifty”
kind of like one of those things
where you say six of one, twelve dozen of another
like that
only different
I used to say:
before I was different
and now I’m the same
