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First Part of Drug Warning For Your Kids

I am a differeent incarnation of  a poet who garnered a lot of praise for writing a poem on a 
subject matter a lot people thought of  consequence, as do I.  So  if you took my advice and 
showed my other poem to your children, cool, and now let them read about how to do what 
brought six of my friends down in eight years…..I’m telling you dudes the s**t is deadly…..so 
Little Johnnie or Tommy:

    THINK ABOUT THE POOR MINK

Those are the breaks
For making mistakes
That’s how it goes
When weeds slay a rose

Look you all
because I’ve got something you probably don’t care to hear
But I have vehement verbiage I want to voice
I want to tell you people that I’ve been places that scare even Satan
Imagine that, 
The father of fear
Making hs own fear clear
I’ve used items you all think are totally benign
A baby’s pacifier, an eye dropper, a medical needle , and a thin strip of paper from money
If anyone had any dollar bills left
 …………because the end of the eyedropper is a bit too thin to hold the needle without what we 
called a “collar” 
It was more like a noose
That which we called a “collar” made to bring us relief

Oh, and this I never knew back then, 
but a lot of shirts come with cotton on the back of a button.
So if we didn’t have cotton to filter out the particles that may clog your needle we’d use the 
back of a button, a cigarette filter or invent something with junkie ingenuity.
And then you need a hairpin and a bottle top from a soda
And you use the hairpin as a handle for the little frying pan you cook the dope up in
I’ve seen people shooting dope in  bodily areas you may not believe
Because either he or she had no viable veins they could find
So they shoot it in incredible places such as under their eyeball
Between their toes 
All in an effort to make certain nobody knows
The genital area is excellent but mostly for a dude
Chicks don’t have as many places, and much thinner veins

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