Jeffry Cohan Poet Quatrain

Link-En and Near-Ohs Advice

LINCOLN AND NERO’S ADVICE

Okay kid, don’t listen to my advice
Just do what you’re going to do
But I can describe the desperation and price
And you’d have to twist the world for my words to be untrue

I remember being in the same exact position
He asked and I responded “yes, and the sooner the better”
It was made to sound like such a perfect proposition
Even when spelled out letter by letter

He swore it would float me to a land of love and lilacs grown
While the kid was envisioning a pristine prairie pure 
He won’t charge you because no junkie wants to go down alone
He won’t charge you until he’s got you hooked with no viable cure

The man believed he had the kid in the palm of his hand
But for me I felt like Napoleon or Nero
The kid heard me and he said “no” then walked away to freedom’s land
And when the kid turned down the dope I felt like some kind of hero
       © 2011.….Phreepoetree ~free cee!~

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