Best Detox Poems

in the moments when
I allow silence
to permeate the
endless storm of doubt
that thunders through me

I realize
that it hurts more
to let silence
in when it has

been so long
absent, and
how very

much I
have to

heal...

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Check your cell phone at the door
And welcome to the bash.
No technology allowed, 
So ditch your secret stash.

Cut yourself off from your friends
And give your thumbs a break.
We have experts who can help –
Withdrawal’s hard to take.

There are fun activities
To keep you occupied.
Make a bracelet...

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LOVE is a drug she wishes she would no longer need.
She cuts open her heart just to watch it bleed.
Hoping to detox she turns and walks away.
Giving up her dreams of a husband and a family of her own some day.
Setting her standards higher as...

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Stare into my blood shot eyes
As I lie on the floor in rage,
Nothing reduces my symptoms,
Not one thought takes the edge off,
Thinking myself into sickness
from lack of having my newest addiction,
My stomach turns and tightens inside,
Soon my coughs will become vomit,

Take it away or return...

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No more water hosing or truncheons beaten on bare feet,
no nightsticks cracking skulls on Bowery streets.

No cold water straitjackets or rubber padded rooms,
no laudanum doses sweeping minds like a broom.

Now its pretentious centers deluxe
brazenly charging big bucks

for twenty-eight days of schmoozing
to turn off the boozing,

and...

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Obsessions and vanities 
False lovers, calamities

Misfortune and shame
Our world’s sinister game

The more you have the more you need,
Fixing your eyes on possessions and greed.

Stab your neighbor through their eye
So they are blinded by your lie.

Keep all busy and far from home
So children are left to...

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(Journal ~ February 11, 2005)


Lonely??
   The loneliness is beyond expression
     The most monstrous variety of regretful solitude imaginable
      THE moment, no thunder or lightning or crushing surf
     Just a heavy,...

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Alone. Screaming in agony
Out loud and also in my brain
Turn it off. Phase it out
GIve me something for the pain

Writhing under the sweat stained sheets
Trembling, shaking out of control
Can’t get up. Can’t make sense
How did this destroy my soul?

A slight lifeless turn to the right
The...

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Jumping from a plane, falling with the rain 
Landed on a train but never felt the same... 

I couldn't touch the ground even when I tried... 
I went into shock and almost died... 

I always felt alone, so I always got stone... 
From the cradle...

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1. Keep your freedom with a passion.
2. No offense, just compassion.
3. Thankfully smile
4. Live in the big picture for awhile.
5. In prayer, look above
6. Overflow with love.
7. Trust
8. No dread; its a must.
9. To enjoy; do you know how?
10. Relax now
11. Take a deep breadth
12....

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You come in as submissive 
My inner circle you dominate 
Blood line circulate never ovulates
One silly move 
you in it for weeks 

I meditate your lust
My past I garden you to die 
Water you to drown 
Milk it 
my bones will carry me

Breathe, weed, smoke,...

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self disgust 
and disappointment
for the slip-up
but I need to know
what cheapens intimacy
devaluing myself
devalues anyone 
with whom I 
would share something 
valuable
it's why 
I'm detoxing from 
all these dopamine pumps
and anesthestics 
(gambling and alcohol)
how could online "intimacy" 
not be included in
the mix that
keeps me from 
feeling
all...

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Detox;
Inside the tornado
calm is a paradox;
Blissful with vertigo
no need to look at clocks;

That gale;
Flat spins are relaxing,
storm blows I can exhale;
Lifted blindly grinning
my head releases hail;

Display
the rage that lies inside;
They'll have nothing to say,
you have nothing to hide;
What is fear anyway?...

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I never knew angst to be so devilish a thing
Taking me from a million clean years, 
To ABC house of booze, because,
My blood money was abused by him
Wrecking the Kia Sportage I was strapped in
A passenger, pained to point of surgeries.

And on a rainy morning...

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Here everybody drains the swamp
The chunks of toxic glitter
And brazen meat
Intelligible only to the daunted fool
Who filled it so
Pour the acid wash
Of peace and indulgence
To cleanse the slop o’ plenty
Time for mixes and fixes
That clear paths meant
For hot-air balloon rides
The kind that tussle deep in...

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