Best Codeine Poems

your love was pure
pure like fire
ephemeral and fleeting
and bore a desire

now lost and broken
contemptuous of what's cheapened
I dream of illusions
though I am not sleeping

your love...

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Almost everyone who came back from Korean War

plays Piano now.

All around that lounge were cognac glasses

being used for tip jars.

The customers were either runaways-fugitives or

here...

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I figured they were kings.
After all what's a king to do
At a party where the guests had 
Bad breath and rain splattered invitations.
By the way,
They...

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The sky shatters with a crack
like dawn breaking in early
Swelled nostrils
Senses sharpened and blurred

The jezabel wind scatters
the flame as I go to ash
out the window
Codeine...

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I am whatever you say I am 
currently I'm the eyes of the world
it's what they discovered when
daddy tied a pork chop around my neck...

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Vicodin? Sure. I guess so.
Might as well give it a go.
Codeine? Why not.
I am not an astronaut.

The pain is back
And I am mad.
It may be...

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I don’t have the financial muscle
To wrestle the American State President intellectually
If the truth be told ;
I don’t have half enough in my savings account
To...

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Her cognition is sporadic
Longing for her to relax
And display calm tactics
Lay on my chest like it’s a hammock
When she isn't calm
I can't stand it
Cause behaviors...

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Oh,doctor I am in a flap
I cannot turn this childproof cap
I cannot take my medicine
So I shall toss it in the bin

The beta blockers make...

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I went ghetto gold .......


I was told that when I flip this, 
I'm come sicker than syphilis,
My verses come in 3's like triplets,
I drop ebonic...

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create a golden route for a poet like me,
let the embodiment of song carved itself
in the palms of the world beyond till lyrics
of faith light...

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Pills for all ills

Here are my bottles filled with pills
Which doctors claim can cure all ills
Amoxicillin for ear, nose and throat
They've never worked for me...

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Half my time is spent bruising my own ego, 
as I literally try to command every cell in my body to forget you entirely. 

To...

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I dreamt of a washing machine,
In colours so obscene,
Of shades of caffeine,
It washed everything that was clean,
To a shiny muddy unclean,
It was part of it's...

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Greeting cards
Movies
Pop songs
Helping to detach us as we go along
Twitter
YouTube
Facebook
Pretending we look like we don’t look
BBC
CNN
Fox news
Shaping and creating our views
Valium
Codeine
Prozac
Numbing and separating us from...

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