"Addicts"
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Monsters, all of them. The ones who Back. The big bloodbath: Family Who shoots up, the Dad who flashes— The-grass, uncles, aunts, boys & girls, The twelve steps to confront the big In the Times by the Depts. of War Back into those we need to kill Heaven-sent ideologies: every Meth. In the heart, in the vein— Set forth by the guy on the internet We all want to be eaten alive, isn't Chateau Y'quem (1945), some techno- Keep us honest: and then, the Donner .
gave one life, the ones who take life
Romance and hot woe: the Mom
Sex fiends, hand-cranked snakes-in-
Gay & straight, rocketing up and down
Mocked sad-as-shit Self, mirrored
& Good Works: breathing life
To restore Peace. There will be
Religion tweaked and sold like crystal
What passes for Populism is
Who wants to be eaten alive. Buddy,
That finally It? You, me, a bottle of
Lute, Catullus' words piped in, just to
Party all over again, but by choice this time.