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O.D.'d major retrospective, devoted to his life's work was he ordinary man, or something of a quirk looking back at pale-lit gallery resumé was he prophetic genius or just overworked Obsessive destructive, objective destiny, some type of truth, some sense of decay Obvious or oblivious - epiphany or enemy needling the hurt - holding the dismay the doubt, the scag, the arm on the john the heart-stopping truth of addiction upon the famous, the obscure, the horse ride unsure the only way to go is up - or down forgone there's a line, a long one, from way past of human souls searching to take away pain hookah'd, needled, and bottled to outlast and escape life's sorrows to live again © Goode Guy 2014-02-04 http://www.npr.org/2014/02/03/270874316/police-investigate-death-of-actor-philip-seymour-hoffman http://www.npr.org/2014/02/03/271064728/on-philip-seymour-hoffman-and-his-many-appearances