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Ode to My Crack

Member since 2003 · Posted 10 Sep 2003 · Edited 10 Sep 2003 · 6 comments

My addiction sickens me Take my flesh, but set me free Strip away my dying bones With my soul I’ll pay my loans Give me peace and give me death Only perverts get the jest There’s little else for me to say And little reason I should stay But still I’m here and so is he Laughing, taunting, killing me Like boiled needles stuck skin deep You leave me feeling dry and weak My giver of this dying trade Never will my debts be paid But I’m strong with crystal will Swinging from a window sill Laughing like a lunatic Fear and mourning makes me sick Numb my heart and every nerve To the master I must serve Inward breath and breakfast straw Burning nose and clenching jaw Torn from birth as if aborted Tries a smile but it’s contorted Twisted distance links my mind To an endless written line That brings me to a sudden end But still I live and hope to mend The heart inside that once beat true Until the day that I met you My bitter bitch my queen so damned This is not what I had planned But when you’ve been awake for 3 straight Your vision begins to shake and even your bones begin to ache The shadows tell secrets of emaculate conception You’re moving so fast that time warps perception And a tweakers connection is one from the soul Or so it seems Like all the illusions you’ve come to believe And the magic in the air you think you can see But borrowed time brings sorrowed times And seizers of the mind Dilute the tell tale signs That everything is breaking Your life is slowly taking One last journey Toward the very bitter end and I am NOT alone!

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[9] ?-Dave_Mysterious-? 10-Sep-03/2:23 PM Reply
Maybe you should have your buttocks amputated.
[n/a] J.B. Manning › ?-Dave_Mysterious-? 10-Sep-03/2:43 PM Reply
haha, yeah that will save the day! Let's ALL get our buttocks amputated.
[9] ?-Dave_Mysterious-? › J.B. Manning 10-Sep-03/4:51 PM Reply
My own buttocks are perfectly fine where they are, thankyou.
[6] Joe-joe 11-Sep-03/7:24 AM Reply
JB,

Your work is interesting. You obviously have a lot of passion and feeling. This comes across powerfully in your work. There are lines as well as ideas here that are fabulous...they fit into the context of the poems theme and flow nicely. Unfortunately there are other lines that seem to be remotely related to your theme and forced in terms of rhythm and rhyme. This cheapens your work..which has the potential to be quite good. Also I notice that most of your work has a short cadence about it. Its sometimes choppy. I'd also consider shortening this piece. But as I said, there are parts that I really liked. Joe-Joe
[n/a] J.B. Manning › Joe-joe 11-Sep-03/10:07 AM Reply
Thanks for the tips Joe. I was actually planning on revising all of these works while writing some new stuff. Most of my current pieces are from last year when I was recovering from addictions. Once I was clear minded enough to complete a full sentence, I needed to expell these negative energies. Now it's time to revise and polish.
[n/a] Bachus 2-Dec-03/6:14 PM Reply
"Death is the maker of the mask that veils the sickness of addiction. Sorrow and suffering are but a mild comfort to the junkie. Whence the pain has come is evident to everyone but that single lost soul, until he wills himself to break free and is forever made stronger by the journey."

LOLTTM! um death is the maker of blee. when you find addiction is a g string taco in an industrial crack pipe then suck your boobie empty and start at go!?

YOU ARE AN IDIOT! As soon as you embrace that fact you'll be able to unglue that penis off of your chin and put it back on your forehead.