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Symbolic Life

The Symbolic Life

Nine years old
And picking candy
Off the shelf at Woolworth.
Two Tootsie rolls,  and
A Rolo, then a bite off of
A wax bottle filled with sugar. 
Forty nine years old,
And picking candy out of
My medicine bottle,
Two Oxycodones,
And a Morphine,
And bite off a Valium.

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