April Drug Poems

MUSIC IS THE DRUG

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In the symphony of life, a rhapsody so grand,
Music as the drug, a magic at our command.²

Notes like whispers, touching deep within,
A...

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Written: April 10, 2024 For Edward Ebeh Contest

“Raise your words, not voice. It is rain that grows flowers, not thunder.”

— Rumi
    ...

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Fools'day 
When you mistakenly
                         take 
                         Medicines
                         Made 
                            for 
                             a 
                           Mad
                           Man 
                              or
                           Woman 
     
You will seem As 
  ...

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Addiction takes on many disguises
You feel left alone with your own vices
Yet, you don’t think there is a problem
Which is the problem you can’t see
Once...

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A cobwebbed threshold 
of her festering wound.
The foul rush of shadow and abandonment
spoiled just beyond recognition. 

Embers of a chaotic ritual 
and venom searing vehemently
through...

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Halka sa namkeen tha
Halka sa khamera tha
Teray peshab ka sawad
Teray peshab ka sawad.
Note.(GoLi ya TEKA)???...

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Mike's mom made a multitude of missteps;
Starting strong, she strode straight into struggles.
Calvin convinced her to try crack cocaine.
Love lost: little Mike led a lonely,...

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I will dust your body dripping with fruitful pollen 
from golden buttered sunflowers tall and towering 
painting the sky filled with choirs of yellow canaries...

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tin voice pleading
magic lost
version of self on the edge of drought
fakery
like a bin of plastic fruit

maybe buy livability 
maybe find the stinging centre of body
whatever...

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Looking back, one thing comes clean-glass clear
you were always there for me subduing every fear.

I tried to do my duty, be a husband strong and...

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The day my life went bizacko,
I had me a brush with “big C”
“No biggie; just radiation,” they said,
“after lumpectomy.”

“No, wait,” said the surgeon,“Your cancer’s genetic!
Let’s...

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A tribute to the amphetamine of day
Caffeine in all its glorious forms
It’s legal it’s potent
Nobody hounds you
Scrutinizing your intake
Be it social or on your own...

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Enantiomers do not make my amphetamine.
No cognitive enhancers do I need.
Don’t bother giving me that crazy Benzedrine.
Imagination was my mind’s first seed.

I need no extra...

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I hold my breath as lights go down 
adrenaline overflowing
red curtains part 
a shot in the dark stills my pumping heart

Transported to another world 
of...

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cocaine  with cocktails 
free fearless fun fantasy--
life imprisonment 




8th April 2019

Delilah Ventura's Contest
Freedom to nothing to something...

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