That California Escap(ad)e

Eleven years ago
back then it was today
I was alive according to
the records of my stay

In the hollow underground
I sweated out my scam
hiding out to prove that sound
felt heavier than ham

Truffle pigs in tasting rooms
wine and classic haunts
darkness built me many dooms
and fewer fewer jaunts

With the bill that California
pretender grape hotel
gone back east with salad forks
purgation lettuce hell

Say the mean and mean the say
longer limit lines
by the books that saved the day
power potluck tines