Case Study: LSD (1969)

[Music] I first dropped acid when I was 18 I was over at these people's house one night this guy I went to school with was over there and asked me if I wanted to try some acid I had read about it in the newspapers and heard a few friends talk about it so I was curious I was pretty jacked up on marijuana so I decided to try it and I dropped it I don't know what I was waiting for a flash or or a rush or whatever but I kept sitting there waiting and waiting and nothing was happening so I got up and then went to the dresser and put on a pair of pink Capri and a green and brown blouse I thought the colors were beautiful so we tripped down to Market Street and I decided to buy a hot [Music] dog I was very hungry and I had put mustard and ketchup and relish in the usual and I put the hot dog up to my mouth and somebody started screaming I didn't know what was happening so I looked up at my friend Terry and said did you hear that didn't you hear someone scream he said no I got the hot dog up to my mouth again and I was ready to bite and the scream got louder and it hit me no it couldn't be and I looked down at the hot dog and there was a face on him Eyes Nose a mouth I had put the ketchup to where it looked like his hair and he started telling me that I couldn't eat him that he had a wife and seven kids at home to support and I stood there with this hot dog and asked Terry do you know this hot dog is talking to me and he says Nah let's get out of here he thought I was just faking and I told him look at the thing he's got a face and he's screaming the guy finally looked over and he got on the same trip that I was on and we sat there carrying on a conversation with that hot dog finally I decided I was just hallucinating so I put it in my mouth and bit down it screamed so loud that you could hear it all over town so I had to throw it on the ground and step on it and I was was jumping on this hot dog in the middle of Market [Music] Street I realized that I had murdered it and I took off screaming down the street scared [Music] he [Music]