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Premium Member As good as it gets
Where's Jack Nicholson?
Where did he go?
Is he dead yet?
Does any one know?
Wars, and opiates,
mass shootings and debt,
and that potential nuclear threat.
Is this truly as good as it gets?
One might end up with Tourette's,
as good as it gets..



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Categories: opiates, celebrity, people,
Form: Light Verse
Premium Member By One's Hand
Oh, Death where is your ring?
How many more moons will crown the vault of Heaven
Ere’ your folded, flesh-starved fingers
Surround bells that toll

Will you approach, hearing my cries
Rising from the depths of despair
Begging for you specter
Longing to taste your stale breath
Across my lips

Cruelly ignoring my last...

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Categories: opiates, addiction, death, suicide,
Form: Free verse
Sin Like Sand
Lying here with a straw in my hand.
Contemplating tying off with a band. 
Wish I could just stop this s**t.  
Withdrawals back, let this be my last hit. 

Got put on, took 3 days to make a band.
Racked up a couple grand, before I...

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Categories: opiates, addiction, drug, extended metaphor,
Form: Rhyme

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