Rhythmically reducing time for you for I. Coagulation increasingly lessens the beat.
Off-written and wrecked, We can’t turn home as Junkies and Dealers. This home, Washed out in familial gossip of relapse and resurge After our firefights Against venomous appetites. Yet here we light this pipe, you and I, With a reprise of shell-shocked war stories Reanimating the grind Of addiction’s battle.
Promise by the world, A mind’s conviction and a 12-step program Would naturally manifest in abstinent purity And after, Serenity.
Through the itch Still We are lumbering on, yet raging. Violently insisting that these dreams are vouched for and Stances held Should leave our slicked soles immobile.
Smooth winds crinkling past twigs And I with you, my dealer, Am a lubricated branch on smooth-weathered granite grade.
In descent I tear at the throat with embarrassed tears. Cries that only slicken the stone. So of it, I swallow what will fill, And beg you to do the same. As fingernails rip from flesh In grip of a still frame I can hear the 12-step program bid out again. “Let there be sweat till the clouds run red. Let trailing beads glisten while I the blossom Begin budding in the fall.”