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here is the tablet take two

here is  the tablet take two

round yellow yum yum pearl delicious

always home to take my fix

swallow  it down with water spit

***** lethal anyway

I’d shoot it up if I could

the sound of the orange sea

almost two years are measured

pill bottles collected in the drawer

mama said mama says mama will say

another habit she wants me to kick

I wouldn’t take it if I could

my lines are broken

my hands shake

my blood doesn’t coagulate

all to stop Kitty from coming around again

her cycles my cycles our cycles of overjoy and despair

fire and brimstone and eat me up so tired of being tired

whatever is left of me only me is there

fits in a tiny bottle like ashes like pills

like lethal overspent energy like fission

Kitty the mushroom cloud monster

elements which don’t mix well on the orange sea

daddy said that its my brain

biochemical broken reception

spinning and spiraling into oblivion

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jessica-drake-thomas
American
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Jul 26, 2010
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