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"cirrhosis" poems

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PillsThere lived a man in Shady Hills, / sits home all day, popping pills. / Morning, noon and night, / n

@allen-wilbert26

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My Great-Grandmother in "Bellevue Asylum for the Insane"My great-grandmother lived in a time when if you sang too loudly in a public place / Such as on the

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Of Mice, Cirrhosis, Roaches, Oh Ya....And a Drunk.Life got too hard, / and he just gave up / he tipped his vodka bottle / swirled into his cup. / No i

@Lendonpartain60

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Dear, EnablersWith blinders on they let the wrong go on / No interventions / No attempts to make it right / Look t

@laurie-fisher32

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the short life of Walter Smallshadow (series, “Other Obits”)he eschewed the label, / “Native American,” for he was Injun, / and he wasn't ashamed he liked his s

@spysgrandson31

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The Five Stages of GriefFirst the diagnosis / Then the prognosis / Indeed it is cirrhosis / Alongside the cancer / Is the an

@andreas-simic37

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YeahLike the tell tale / Sign of a head / Scab screaming / cirrhosis / Exclaiming a life that lived / Ba

@david-ehrgott8

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You don't come aroundThe best of dying is / nil by mouth / morphine the last delirium then / laid out to rest, / he ain't

@topaz-oreilly15

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The Tribulations of Shamus McCabernaughShun the elixir, the demon water, the Irishman's albatross! / Liver cirrhosis and overdoses, we wand

@Illuminationworkshop5

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FuryMy blood boils over / Your four leaf clover / Is running out of luck / Don't push it, I'm at the bri

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.mama, you got to move.her breath / was lost in the / beauty / of woodwork / that housed / the contents of / her previous /

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How Would I Know?I'm trying to find the way / But I don't know where to go, / Sometimes I think I found it / But how

@iris-erielle-foss59

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TuesdayI sit my backpack down on the university bathroom floor with a clink. / I pull my pants down so I bl

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The Resolution.Another year, another resolution / Dry out January / That was a tough day / Change of job, new chall

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houdini, sawed in half in a casket.i often wonder how i will die. skin cancer. / heart complications. liver cirrhosis. old age. / undet

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A NATION THAT REFUSES TO THINKBy: Cedric McClester / We’ve become a nation / That refuses to think / They pass us poisoned Kool Ai

@cedric-mcclester42

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Passing By.You defy belief / Thanks dear / I mean, seven in the morning and you’re sober / Pub went on fire, ea

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Mulberry WineThe lost seas of writhing souls / Deep and the darkness, bucolic peasantry carrying a basin of mud /

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Passing By.You defy belief / Thanks dear / I mean, seven in the morning and you’re sober / Pub went on fire, ea

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too late is too lateWherever you hear about a drinking / problem / you expect the man to be / violent and vulgar and tur

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Cirrhosis HypnosisMonsters under beds / that come upon night fall / oh, for fucks sake its the ethanol / awake at what

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Cheap Rooms and LoveThe efficiency room days were / the worst and the best. / Broke and bent, / sick and deranged. / Dis

@thomas-w-case47

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confession of a non-alcoholicmy tongue is craving for alcohol; / my esophagus is getting dry from all these cryings. / my liver c

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