If I'M Cooking For My Chick and I Use Onions Or a Leek Does That Mean I'M Taking a Leak

WHEN HOPE TURNED TO DOPE My memories of yesterday are hazy at best Perhaps they’ve faded away at retribution’s request Yet somehow I remember popcorn and pop-guns as a child And then came seventeen when I discovered poppy plants grow wild My adolescent days are difficult to recall I hardly remember too many of them at all But with great difficulty I found a way to cope For then came seventeen when I discovered dope I remember she and me holed up in a seedy hotel It wasn’t but should have been dubbed “Hotel Hell’ Because that’s where the shadows of its hallways had finally led While I was shooting up on the floor and she upon the bed In the land of the rising sun is from where the powder came And there was no one except she and I to blame Somehow slanted eyes knew precisely what to do And how to make heroin from the poppies they all grew We’d checked into that hotel with empty luggage in tow We left them behind so the clerk never knew when we’d go We ran up a charge for room service to order up some food But the dope we had injected mitigated hunger’s mood Seventeen is now coming upon seventy too fast And ever fades the remembrances of a very shady past They are mostly visions my mind commands me not to save However before I turned twenty I was visiting six very good friend’s grave © 2011.…..free cee!