To An Addict (edit shem, JDofing)

[RiverNotch]

To An Addict -- Wait, is everything you write about drugs? Is that piece I commented on way back about them chakras also about drugs, too? xD

Yeah, I dig the speaker here in an aesthetic sense -- that economy of words JDofing earlier noted sure works wonders, here. Reminds me of Louise Gluck, kinda -- specifically Adult Grief. Although Adult Grief was handled with more delicacy, and seems to talk about something not as life-or-death, so that the speaker here just seems like an asshole to me. I've been to an almost equivalent place, or at least I've read about them, and I'm sure this type of direct language is used justly, but only those very close to the victim, and always with a loving "retraction" at the end -- but the title distances the speaker way too much, and the ending here just magnifies the speaker's meanness. 

And really, although this may be specific to my place, but that death at the end makes it quadruple sick: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/j...l-drug-war
 
Don't ask me to feel sorry for you
in your self-induced misery:
you're not stupid, just willfully self-centered.
How many times have you cut off your nose?
Certainly enough times
to create a necklace large enough to supply
a tribe of cannibals.
No, don't give me your justification,
I've heard them all before
and yes it really is that bad,
and Something at this line itches: I would move "no" in the next line up to this same line instead, just to make both lines cleaner. But then that does make them a bit more, I dunno, uneven....
no, you have no control.
The bottom line is
you want to ruin a few more lives
before you do what you need to do.
That is if death doesn't claim you first
causing everyone to sigh with relief.
 
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