Day 110 and the first day of Summer

Today's words:
Laxative
Trailer
Wisdom
Grease
Straw
Race

Drink was a verbal laxative
For my second cousin, who lived in a trailer.
Fortunately, my mother had the wisdom
To get us out of there once she started. Outside there were grease
Stains on the ground; someone had thrown straw
On them. Her son was in a drag race

That ended when he crashed his car, losing the race
And his life. My cousin had given him a laxative
That morning; she thought that had somehow caused it. The straw
Strewn around the trailer
Had been there since then; the grease
Was from the crashed car. She still had all her wisdom

Teeth, though not many others. Wisdom
Apparently has nothing to do with teeth or that race
Would never have happened.  Bacon grease
Can be a laxative,
And is often used in the trailer
Park for that purpose. Yes, the straw

Drawn by my cousin was certainly a short one, as was the straw
Of wisdom
She'd pulled. Living in a trailer
Park is no fun, and in the race
Of life she was a loser, always looking for a new laxative
To use instead of grease.

She claimed that drinking grease
Through a straw
Would increase its laxative
Effect. Is this folk wisdom?
My mother would race
To get us out of that trailer

Park every time. Of course, we thought living in a trailer
Was impossibly cool. We'd smear grease
On each other's faces and race
Around, chasing each other with clumps of straw.
My mother had the wisdom
Not to listen to her cousin's advice about giving us a laxative.

There in the trailer, surrounded by straw
And grease, I learned the wisdom
Of not being in a race after taking a laxative.