Long Rehab Poems

Twenty two years had passed  by

She blinked, and a lifetime had passed

She started this job as a lark

She never thought it would last

Two husbands and rehab were part of this bar

The husbands...her clients all...

Read More

I have had a highly redundant,
one might even choose polypathic,
graduate studies experience
spanning my adult life to date.

This began with a semester of Philosophy.
Just enough to learn I wanted something more experiential,
a more communitarian environment of...

Read More

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...

Read More

Used As an Experiment

THE SILENCE IS BREAKING MEEEE….CAN’T YOU SEE?


V.1: Strong AS STEEL, wrapped up with silver, heartfelt ribbons
Give it to me – the rope of hope
You smoked me out like a cigarette…
Used like I’m...

Read More

TRIGGER WARNING this piece features active addiction, the struggles etc 

I Can't stop screaming, sobbing the pain in my stomach is excruciating,
Eventually Im assigned a bed to be left in whaling, waiting, 
Finally a nurse...

Read More

The mute old drunk had gotten lucky the day before - a stranger had taken pity on him at the bridge, (under which he and many other homeless people lived), and stopped to give him...

Read More

Lord I am in a real mess and this mess that I am in I could sure use a dear friend because this mess that I am in is because of wrong choices and falling...

Read More

If anyone would like to have some community fun, 
please send me a limerick(s) in a comment or soup mail.  



The famous Blarney Stone, some can't resist
When in Ireland, it's on tourist's checklist
But do...

Read More

January 22nd 1990, I came into this world,
7 pounds 9 ounces, a healthy little girl,
Welcomed by my parents Linda and RIck,
On such a lovely day as this,
Oh wait no what is this,
They already have two...

Read More

it had indeed become the autumn of his life and he had harshly lost

every spring in his step when his wife began to abuse his good faith

abandoned him by the way side and the side...

Read More

GROGGY BEDHEAD NO COFFEE SHUT THE BLINDS .... PRESIDENTIAL NO GOOD CHOICES TELIVISION SIGNAL GLITCH SMEAR ART CAMPAIGN... LATE NIGHT REHEATED RERUN RETWEEKED RETWEETED MORNING NEWS?....
MORE RAIN TOO HOT BROKEN LEFT WINDSHIELD WIPER.... SAME OLD...

Read More

I hate my life 
My souls are damaged it’s full of pure hell that I can’t take it back it’s like listening to that awful country depression music that you can’t stand and you just...

Read More

Starched tears stream, crust
over like a spoiled sweet on 
pink cheeks, flushed,
from suffocated time,
gasping for air,
I shatter at his words like brittle rust,
crushed to dust, 
mind meek.

Fifth time this week.
Shallow breaths to Karma Police,
struggle to...

Read More

When I think of the times in therapy that I spent with Lenny, they weren't that of a therapist to a patient.  They were more of daughter to father or daughter to grandfather. Like...

Read More

I think about you daily to the point of no return.
You’re an obsession that I can’t seem to shake, an addiction that not even rehab can cure. 
You are my morphine that I need every...

Read More

Abraham
23  Genesis 24:40 "He said to me, "The LORD before whom I have walked
will send His angel with you and make your journey a success, and you will
take a wife for my son from...

Read More

There were boys in my life
From the time I was 13
There were boys
Secreted away in journals
Like some sort of forbidden candy
To be written about and savored 
In a fantasy world all my own
And in that...

Read More

Jasmine, the girl in gym with me, has a reputation of the school, theatre slut.
I BET IN THE NEXT TEN YEARS... she will become a famous actress who will end up
Being apart of the biggest...

Read More

"But they that wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength: they shall mount up with the wings like eagles, they shall run and not be weary, they shall walk and not faint." Isaiah 40:...

Read More

Maybe it was just a dream, a fantasy. 
A dream so sweet I could tang its scent. 
A fantasy roughly you and I on top of the world.
A dream so flawless nothing can relate. 
A...

Read More

when we go to jail we get a legal aid lawyer
who  tells us to take a plea even when we are innocent.
when we go looking for a job, we're told nothing is available.
and when...

Read More

...Years passed and Allan tried dating once more,
but soon gave up, as it didn’t feel right.
How could he when he still loved his Janet?
This caused him to take up drinking at night.

The drinking, of course,...

Read More

Looking forward to 2024:

Psalm 1:1-3

Blessed is the one who does not walk in the steps of the wicked
that sinners take or sit in the company of mockers, but whose 
delights are in the Lord, and...

Read More

"Addiction"      
WrittenBy: Billy Malloy.. 

Addiction how can you sentence me ? Who are you my judge ?.. i got Habits not leaving , nope wont even budge...William Malloy, that's my...

Read More

Flat line ...

Resuscitate, flat line, resuscitate, flat line ...
          and back again ... to sinus rhythm ... to life.
       ...

Read More