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Premium Member INFORMANT 1992
BEING AN INFORMANT UNDERCOVER DOPE FIEND HAD A FEW PERKS ESPECIALLY FOR MY ABUSIVE EX HUSBAND HE DID ODD JOBS FOR CIRO AND HIS PARTNER LARRY MOVING VIDEO MACHINES FENCING WEAPONS CIRO HAD STORED IN...

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Categories: overdose, allah,
Form: McWhirtle



Steven
He has the biggest heart.

He enjoys doing things for other people

Just because it’s the right thing to do, and

Knowing he made someone happy makes him happy too.

He’ll do whatever he can to satisfy

Everyone around him.

But...

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Categories: overdose, addiction, anxiety, drug,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member An Epic Love For Women
I know you're not here

but you are in my heart 

so 

you are always with me

i'll just slip into you

with these words.
 
I know 
there are mountains
dwarf the cities below 
peaks that stride above the...

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Categories: overdose, beauty, celebration, dream, heart, love, magic,
Form: Epic
Turning To Turquoise
Verse 1: My destiny...
My dignity...
Is all gone since you left me with nothing to lose
I'm willing to let go of this grudge in my heart...cut loose the noose 
That's around my neck
Give me your love...

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Categories: overdose, deep,
Form: Lyric
Doing absolute zero endeavors
Doing absolute zero endeavors

Earlier today March 28th, 2025
(thee hour now fifteen minutes
after eight o'clock at night, cuz
yours truly & wife paced back
and forth from one room to the
other wearing out rugged groovy
Tuesday (three day) experienced...

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Categories: overdose, absence, adventure, angel, angst, humorous, joy, tribute,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Lord of Long Shadows, Master Poe and I
Lord Of Long Shadows, Master Poe And I 

Lord of long shadows had invaded hearth and home
sauntered in amidst cracklings of hot fireplace flames
Saying, " I like this sad place, may I freely roam
you know...

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Categories: overdose, art, fantasy, imagination, judgement, surreal, symbolism, writing,
Form: Rhyme
Breathless, Travis Morrison
Suicide, euthanasia
I never thought I’d be the one to go down like this
But I wanted to have control in the way I was sent out of this world
Instead of kept barely alive, pointless.
My parents refused...

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Categories: overdose, books, suicide,
Form: Free verse
From Darkness To Stardom
Every child is born into this world crying,
Little did this poor child know, tears would fall for the rest of her life.
Born into a world of abuse, heartache and pain,
With a drug addict, alcoholic abusive...

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Categories: overdose, angel, change, dream, pain, poetess, solitude, violence,
Form: Epic
Ah methinks I could sleep forever
Ah... methinks I could sleep forever

Basking in a supine position
with eyes wide shut
while the space heater churns out
fast moving molecules of heat
solitudinarian drowsy thinker fêted
by miniature fantasy 
of tropical island paradise
accompanying and populating slumber
courtesy flickering,...

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Categories: overdose, adventure, appreciation, atheist, beautiful, freedom, humorous, motivation,
Form: Rhyme
Hollywood
The victim list keeps growing

But no one really cares

The gristmill claims another one

Keep your hands in and don't stare

Hollywood is the golden land

The eternal silver screen

But many souls are lost here

A lot of greats or...

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Categories: overdose, america, betrayal, culture, loneliness, pain, society,
Form: Epic
By the Numbers

Everybody love to say they’re number one,
but it takes two
to make beautiful music, 
so we’re told
Pitch perfect
That one favorite song two lovers have,
it never gets old
After ninety nine repeats, 
it sounds one zero zero multiple...

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Categories: overdose, love, metaphor, romantic, word play,
Form: Romanticism
The very abridged version recounting untold tragicomic storied life of Matthew Scott Harris
The very abridged version recounting untold tragicomic storied life of Matthew Scott Harris

I led a boring life.
The end.

All joking aside, now the epilogue.

As a bookish fellow born January 13th,1959
he attended school and got promoted
as a...

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Categories: overdose, 2nd grade, 3rd grade, 4th grade, 5th
Form: Free verse
Connections
I can feel this thread running all over me, it’s like I am connected to the deep blue sea and the current is pulling me into the deep dragging me towards an unplanned destiny; the...

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Categories: overdose, appreciation, beautiful, business, caregiving, confidence, courage, emotions,
Form: Narrative
Fire Cypher
supercalifragilisticexpialidocious
Ice cold mic hold 
A flow that’s so ferocious 
a Higher level focus
Exposes my neurosis
bogus amateurs are hopeless
Yoga poses lotus 
Possibly psychosis 
Or Musical symbiosis
intelligent my opus 
intellectual Hypnosis  
Rhythm in fluid motion
My style...

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© James West  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: overdose, hip hop, rap,
Form: Free verse
Lifetime of Chaos
When I was 16 I lost my best friend
I started to grind, smoking weed and drinking Hennessee 'n' Gin
Then my clientele blew up
I'm 16 making bands feelin' like I grew up
Poppin' pills and chewin' em'...

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Categories: overdose, abuse, addiction, care, change, corruption, death, drug,
Form: Rhyme
Lifetime of Chaos
When I was 16 I lost my best friend
I started to grind, smoking weed and drinking Hennessee 'n' Gin
Then my clientele blew up
I'm 16 making bands feelin' like I grew up
Poppin' pills and chewin' em'...

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Categories: overdose, abuse, addiction, care, change, corruption, death, drug,
Form: Rhyme
Of My Prescription
I'm here to clarify 
My passions that I never defy 
Prescriptions of my essence
My drug is my vibe 
Addictions to what I do 
No cure to my being true 
My body is vacant of disease...

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Categories: overdose,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Come Back And Finish What You Started
Looking back on when we were Young so long ago
It's so sad 
When I think of all the things we had
And magical things we used to do
Fate and providence Brought us together
Fate and providence tore...

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© Peter Dome  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: overdose, beautiful,
Form: Free verse
No
Be a good example…
Don’t you know what that means?
I munch on my apple
Didn’t you hear me? Eat your green beans!

You’re stuck in place
You say “no”…
Stop denying it so
And I say “yes”
But, you can make progress
You’re...

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Categories: overdose, betrayal, change,
Form: Free verse
Digging my own grave synonymous with a sense of accomplishment
Digging my own grave synonymous with a sense of accomplishment

Quite an undertaking
to break ground
figuratively, and symbolically linkedin
while able bodied and mindedness
readies cemetery plot within Elysian Fields
although honestly, and truthfully
as an organ donor,
yours truly opts for...

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Categories: overdose, addiction, age, angel, atheist, blessing, creation, grave,
Form: Free verse
A Childhood Interrupted
Needles on the dresser, pipes in your hands, 
Chaos as the soundtrack to a childhood undone. 
Screams that hurt my ears, objects thrown and broken, tears on faces. 
When I think of my childhood, instead...

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Categories: overdose, addiction, angst, childhood, conflict, death, family, heartbreak,
Form: Free verse
The Kisses That Go Beyond Lips
When my lips meet yours, I feel our souls entwine,

In a special way that isn’t worth the wealth of my words

Leaving me with a yearning for more…

With insatiable desire

Just kiss me again and my heart...

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Categories: overdose, kiss, universe,
Form: Free verse
Encrypted Mind of Skippy 4
Search paths to be everlast,
Act fast as you reach your final math,
Equation equals the lost chance,
To hold the happiness stance,
From a distance you can only glance,
Securities reach it's breech,
As followers continue to leech,
Don't speak to...

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© Eric Petry  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: overdose, life, lost, life, lost, me, perspective,
Form: Blank verse
Premium Member Funny Jokes For The Coming Holidays Read At Your Own Risk Thank You
Why couldn't the lizard get married and have children?
Because he had Reptile Dysfunction.

Two men broke into a drug store and stole all the Viagra.
The police put out an alert, to be on the lookout for...

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Categories: overdose, funny, sensual, silly,
Form: Light Verse
The Poor Mans Child
USA Fourteen percent of the population 
create thirty nine percent of the crime
Fifty seven percent of USA male prisoners 
come from live's of poverty
Seventy two percent of USA female prisoners 
come from lives of poverty
The...

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Categories: overdose, inspiration, international,
Form: Narrative

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