Sherm Stick Poem

An Ode to the Sherm Stick

Brandon Elliott
According to urbandictionary.com, a sherm stick is a joint which has been dipped in "embalming fluid". When smoked it produces a hallucinogenic high where a lot of the time you lose control of yourself.

This is a semi-satirical poem about the sherm stick.

Oh hateful sherm stick,
why must you entice these fiends,
these imbeciles,
with your diseases, your chemicals
and then you just disintegrate,
continuing to pollute our souls.
While babies sleep,
with their innocent minds and fluffy blankets.
Yet you,
unremorseful sherm stick,
do not care.
No.
All you see is money, and bright colors.
Changing colors, and acid.
Oh hateful sherm stick,
can't you just leave our streets,
and burn out your flame.
Leave the embalming fluid to the morgue.
Stick something else in your pipe,
and smoke it.

Published by Brandon Elliott

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  • Suzanne Alicie2/25/2009

    Okay I had not heard of this, and hopefully will never need to know about it, but great writing.

  • Geannie M. Bastian2/24/2009

    Gross item, but funky idea for a poem. Cool.

  • Matthew P. Valois2/24/2009

    It sounds great out loud!

  • R. Elizabeth C. Kitchen (Rose)2/23/2009

    They call them wet sticks in Cleveland. I cannot imagine smoking embalming fluid. Nicely written.

  • Justice Lives Not2/22/2009

    Oh, and I don't do any hard drugs, either. It's a shame we live in such a drug-paranoid society that we have to put little disclaimers on some of our more controversial work, lest the tiny minds among us let their over-active imaginations run wild through the maddened crowd. Again, I dug this and caught the irony.

  • Justice Lives Not2/22/2009

    This one had me trippin' balls, dude! Well done (I had always known a 'sherman' to be a doobie dipped in liquefied PCP, but hey, ya loin somethin' new every day!). Good job. I just added ya!

  • Greenhill2/22/2009

    I'm glad you explained what it is before the poem started!

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