this piece is called the unworthy vessel daddy long legs looked like uncle sam on stilts and he ran this osteopath clinic outside east st louis and took in a few junkie patients for two nights a week they stay out at night in green long chairs and look at the oaks and grass stretching down to a little lake in the sun the nurse moves around the lawn with her silver tray feeding the junkie and we called her mother wouldn t you doc benway and me was holed up there after a rumble in dallas involving this aphrodisiac ointment doc goofed on ether mixed in too much spanish fly and burned the prick off the police commissioner we come to daddy long legs to cool off and we find him cool and casual in a dark room with potted rubber plants and a silver tray on a table where he likes to see a week in advance the nurse shows us to a room with rose wallpaper and he have this bell any hour of day or night just ring and mother charges in with a loaded hypo one day we are sitting out in the lawn chairs with lap robes and doc picks up a piece of grass he said this junk turns you on vegetable is green see now green fix should last a looong time so we check out of the clinic and ran a house and doc starts cookin up this green junk the basement is full of tanks smell like a compost heap of junkies so finally he draws off this heavy green fluid and loads it into a hypo big as a bicycle pump now we must find a worthy vessel he says and we flush out this old goofball artist and tell him it is pure chinese h from the ling dynasty doc shoots the whole pint of green right into the mainline yellowjacket turns fibrous grey green withers up like an old turnip and i say i m getting outta here me and doc says an unworthy vessel obviously it was strong in case thank you