The Addict
Laying in the gutter a young
girl seemed asleep lamp posts
look down at rats with greasy
black hair sniffing at her
arm people with thick overcoats
walk around her murmering
contaminated water of many colors
creep along the curb curious stray
cats come to investigate curling
their bodies round the girls cold
white slender leg pleading to be
petted long blond hair matted
like burlap cover her open blank
eyes
Dried blood from a needle in her
lifeless arm stopped flowing after her
heart gave out her bare feet caked
with mud cops milling around discussing
last night’s football game just another
victim of drugs
sirens in the distance howling like animals
ready to take the girl to the waiting morgue
her family’s calls to missing persons and police
went unheeded.
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