Sorrow Drug Poems

Jim
by Lanier Thomas

I tried to tell you, but you refused to hear.
As soon as I returned home from the Army
You took me straight to your...

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Waiting; waiting; waiting…
in the dark of night.
Cotton in my pocket,
soon I’ll be alright.
Twisting in my fingers,
I don’t know what to do,
I think I best buy...

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Do you love me
Do I even care
Care enough to find out
Care because I should
Should I ask you
Should you respond
Respond to my question
Respond with the truth
Truth...

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In mania, the body unbinds itself.
The skeleton’s dense marrow becomes hollow,
an avian adjustment. It is accelerated evolution.
Fluttering and floating in a slew of thoughts
like nervous...

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Filling me up to the brim with hope, 
My emotions slowly sliding down that slope. 
Suspicion building up, why is he hurrying? 
Tension climbing, crazy,...

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How did we get to where we are,
America - the one undimming shining star,
A land of freedom, of unbounded pride
Where no one needed run and...

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Melancholy me, since Kelly's gone away
Far beyond the sea, and out of every day
Stage by stage I've wept, but finally, I see
What I must accept;...

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I know I'm messed up in the head.
I know all the reasons why
I had always wished I was dead.
But now I just feel like I'm...

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Music will never be loud enough again...
Just to cease the silence of this sadness
Of losing you to something of society's sickness;
I sometimes have to wail,...

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It shall always remain such a shame,
That even though in a way we were all to blame.
We were not there, even at the very end...

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I walk down this street
Away from the hospital;
Last place where we meet.
None of us held true avail
Over how God would greet you....

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Twenty-Seven Club--not open to all,
nor is joining top of most people's list.
A club of sadness and shock midst the pall
of last birthdays--twenty-eighth was just missed.

Many...

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(Inspector General Of Police Bola)
Ldky ko marwa dain gay
Supari Sabruka
Teka bhi lagwa dain gay
Supari Sabruka
Galla bhi dabwa dain gay
Supari Sabruka
Fire bhi marwa dain gay
Supari sabruka......

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Piercing        
           ... my fingers 
  ...

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It saddens my heart to see
Someone’s precious child
Now grown, drug addicted and broken 
Spirit and soul defiled
 
Existing only for the next fix
Unkept and homeless
Feeding...

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