It came quiet as the night
Nothing you could fight
It drifted unnoticed in the air
More lethal than an angry bear
He didn't feel a breeze, he didn't feel a change
Nothing out of order, nothing struck him strange
It bound to his hemoglobin, 200 times as strong
His cells were suffocating, all systems going wrong.
They found him in my car, a snow drift behind
The got him out in time for the poison to unwind
I researched it, other compounds also creep in stealth
They may change the way you act, they may destroy your health.
A crime mob found this out, they can ambush, poison you
The motive might be foggy, the method leaves no clue
Just another thing to worry about these days
Bad things can happen, in so many new ways.
See, there are crimes you know were done
But with stealthy drugs in air, there is no smoking gun
We can rub the wrong guy the wrong way
then wonder why the joy fades out, and our life goes gray.
Categories:
monoxide, evil, sin, surreal,
Form: Lyric
An odorless/colorless gas highly toxic is the report
It’s Carbon Monoxide by name but I’ll call it CM for short.
It’s known as The Silent Killer and to avoid being hurt
You need to be real careful and install a CM Alert.
What causes this dangerous gas is a furnace as a rule.
That or any appliance that runs on fossil fuel.
CM Alerts are not expensive but they’re worth their weight in gold.
Their readings are in PPM’s - 35 ppm’s is max I’m told.
If it goes over 35 you’ve got troubles that’s for sure.
You’ve got to call an expert in so you can be secure.
I have a real long story but I’m gonna make it short
We got in some CM trouble so we called the experts to report.
We were very lucky with the trouble that we faced,
Our ppm read 1500 so our furnace was replaced!
According to statistics - 1600 means you’re dead
We missed by just 100 so we were lucky like I said.
So if Safety really matters then it’s best that you decide
To install a CM Alert or two in the place where you reside!
Categories:
monoxide, health, life
Form: Rhyme
What if everytime you breathed in air
You learned something?
When art begins to devour itself
It walks in our very footsteps
And I'm not talking about the shadows of our footsteps
I'm talking about the dimensions we sold to higher ground when the
Unemployment check decided for us we were worthless
Though our eyes glow like beacons
For each other, thirsty for connection
And then learning how not to cry as children...
We live like children now
Through the basements of our dreams.
And some of us have forgotten where the windows are.
Categories:
monoxide, life
Form: Free verse
The steady pull
of temptation--
a tease on
my resolution.
When I can sleep,
I take what dreams
afford me.
In these dreams,
my 'noxide comes
to ward me.
Her smoke is an invitation.
my conscience
falls for
the con science
of my imagination.
I give in
and reality spins.
Between the sleeps,
I lie in sanity.
I wonder:
Did I give into
my humanity?
did I'd err?
Is that
smoke in the air?
Categories:
monoxide, confusion, depression, devotion, fantasy,
Form: Free verse
Smokeless inhales hurt.
I cough tar on my shirt.
As my black lungs breathe,
Shrilling exhales wheeze.
Cabrona
Falls me
Down to
My knees.
The nicotine cracks
My will.
My composure
Spills.
I want
This.
I must
Have this.
I sink
Into
The brink
Of madness.
Categories:
monoxide, confusion, dedication, depression, devotion,
Form: Free verse
Chain smoke until
I'm in care of the CO.
There's one left, still.
I smoke it really slow.
"It's the end," I anticipate
As the last inch evaporates.
I can't get
Over it;
It's over before
I know it.
Butt, I can't quit.
I'm possessed with this
Obsession; I'm addicted.
My lungs have oxygen,
Yet I'm suffocating inside.
I can't breathe again
Without my 'noxide.
Categories:
monoxide, confusion, dedication, devotion, girlfriend-boyfriend,
Form: Free verse