Long Methadone Poems

BROKEN DOWN ANGELS

It disny seem that long ago
Toddling and having fun,
Crawling then walking along the floor 
And learning how tae run.

Potty trained and full eh life
They’d run you af yer feet,
A kiss on the cheek...

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Tears in the Crowds

A tyrant on a corrupt throne 
A sheep about to become a genetic clone
A weary traveller far away from home 
A heroin addict on methadone

Graveyards of peace and quiet lament 
An ungrateful...

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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 just to get the dog to play with me
first time...

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Johnny Thunders… Room 37. 

John Anthony Genzale JR, a man that did the drugs and booze, 
Not only born to live but ultimately born to lose. 
Born in fifty two he loved the game of...

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I'm passed in an 
alley but the feeling 
doesn't hurt, I feel 
some kind of way 
because my shoes 
don't match my 
shirt,

the tracks descend 
my arm to form a 
highway made of 
veins, I'd...

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Well, Pop is resting now.

He didn’t get to go home on Thursday. The Oncologist 
wanted him to have either Hospice or Home Health Care.
           ...

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I used to think the long smoke filled tables of NA were the answer.  
The stalks of faces nodding with my inflection,  up up down downs left left right. 
Like a goddamn contra...

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I'm passed in an alley but the feeling doesn't hurt, I 
feel some kind of way because my pants don't 
match my shirt,

the tracks descend my arm to form a highway made 
of veins, I'd...

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There is a state of mind known as woebegone
In which one feels like an addict on methadone
The more one tries to feel upbeat
The more one suffers mental defeat
And the mind plays on like a gramophone.
8
The...

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Hot the lost lovers rage 
Walk within pantheons of gilded brigades
The passions roar as idolized lost sages
Of some immense meaning 
In supernatural things 
Without rhythms or reasons
Of a fathomless being 
Walking destiny’s configured trails

The streaming...

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Kisses good-bye;  waved out the door.
Sitting at the shore.  The water is still rolling.
You want to know how much longer I'll be here for.

We'll all be here till death is at the door....

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Leading you!

Close your eyes let me show you the way
Not a hit movie or child's play
Let me reveal some things to you this day
Answer questions family feuds pass my days
My ways are better than yours...

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To not be in control of my own body and soul
To beat my addiction is my huge goal
Due to my addiction I have lost everything in my life
once a devoted mother and a perfect wife

But...

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Superman walks round my neighborhood
Dirty cape, crooked cane,  ain't too looking good
Hit by a Mac truck, Highway 43
He's on a medical marijuana disability

Everyday's the same old struggle and strife
Happiness, is just a state of...

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Gorgeous Charlotte was the goddess of illegal sex,
no restrictions applied to her naughty affections;
I met her last December at the Platinum Dolls...
driving everybody wild, even the policeman Alex!  

Here's the question they asked me...

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What's going on in my home town? 
I ask you this from behind my frown 
The high streets full of charity places
Populating the vacant spaces.

We are overrun with taxi cabs
"You working late pal? Ya looking...

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she was hooked on drugs part of her life 
but has a son to help her fight 
in life we never know the road we may take 
but changing the course is never too late....

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Intro...
1.Scotland has 20,000 methodone users-Double any country in Europe.
2.Our Government has spent 105 million pounds on it in 4 years !
3.After a 3 year programme only 3% of users ARE TOTALLY DRUG FREE.
4.Parking addicts on...

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Driving through this neighborhood 
Of boarded houses, nothing good 
A scary feeling wraps me tight 
I shouldn't be here late at night 
My brother called, I had to go 
Beyond my help, 'I know, I...

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You're naked on the table, drinking vodka. The carpet is on fire but you're putting it out with your tears. Am holding my dead body and feeling it grow cold in my own arms. There's...

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I just want you to know,that 
not a single day goes.Wishing 
you were close while I got my 
eyes closed.And its feeling 
like a dream to me,thinking 
someday you can be with me 
but under...

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I see smoke and mirrors 
Deceptions of the mind 
Are they just glimmers 
Of what I might find 

Where have they led me 
Have I been left alone 
Is my will still free 
Or am...

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Police state, time of hate, council estate, life scar, stolen car, no fun, drug run, hard to sleep, cider cheap, benefits cut, sexy slut, home alone, methadone, gang culture, vulture, mountain bike, no do like,...

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You are my drug,
My substance of choice,
The chemicals in my blood…
She, who calms the violent voice…

Without you; I tremble,
I stammer and I shake…
When you are near; I fumble,
Within my soul; I quake…

My addiction; that is...

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I'm going on a 15
she muttered
as the phones were ringing
and clients lined in a queue were singing
out to be seen
sooner than later

non stop action has this place on the run
faxes flying in
somebody walking in tippled...

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