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LeeJ
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since 2003-06-19
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0 posted 2005-08-12 08:20 AM


the same hell at 6 a.m.
empty rooms, playing games in my head
booking executive lunches
exhaustion curls my hair already
even before the vultures begin to vomit
their morning catch
to their winy children, making no response
to the tunes of some nameless weeping bones
that pee like a dog on my leg
every morning, i turn my computer on
they can’t match my face with my name

it wasn’t like this, before time started to run
my mother weeps with bed time stories
and wets the bed
like a mature lunchtime slug, leaching off drugs
the cartel’s sniff her pockets, lined with
wrinkling skin, screaming beneath flag stones

pushing grey hair aside, arms of osteoporosis
leaving them half dead & torn, hungry limbs
wailing from dark rooms of society
thickening mucus with words like research

wandering eyes of stripped gardens
less loud, their compost, reeking stinking flesh
head hunters of happiness
believing their saving lives for Jesus?

to them, leadership is an email to their broker
weeps no shame before eating
off some helicopter pad, of man kind’s dreams
their noise producing side effects
like some bird flu pandemic
listed in medical journals
where satan sets them free

nagging for more samples, the care givers
follow a passage of bowl movements
their own….
oh yeah, cancer plays stick ball in the underworld
as a role model guide for an extended tour
right into someone’s 401(k)
while they ignore feedback off of some political
employee evaluation…
and the leaders can’t match faces with names

yes, nobody knows, true value of mourning
cept the patients in some old folks home
must be some wild awakening
when they realize
that third eye died a long time ago,
while butchers minced diseases

they catch your dreams & throw away blood
screaming for donations, to an employee giving campaign
with some invitation to an autumn cruise
in some hospital bed, filled with their own waste
where pneumonia whispers cold on their face
wearing diapers and bed sores that
mock some euphoric retirement
they were supposed to own

body snatchers of the drug world
can’t match up faces with the names
novelists underestimating mud slides
clicking their heels 3 times
down some slimy yellow brick road

while singing tra la la
private practice, rattled death bones
seated before architects
of old age homes

a managed care of
self induced polio, singing tv commercials
“all the sickly first”!
closing up their shore homes
for the summer
never having to re enter their username
or password
to them, leadership works from home
every Friday
they can’t match up faces with the names

while my mom coughs up blood
from that stinking room, on her cruise
through the portal of aarp


someday Kari, I just may write that book while
on this cruise...


© Copyright 2005 Lee J. - All Rights Reserved
passing shadows
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displaced
1 posted 2005-08-12 08:30 AM


damn!
Sunshine
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2 posted 2005-08-12 08:43 AM


Only because we know you CAN!

And I'll ditto Dixie, while I'm at it.

You've booked the cruise, right?

Gentle Spirit
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since 2000-10-09
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3 posted 2005-08-12 08:49 AM


damn lee, this hits hard with emotion and honesty.  Hugs to you...
HopeS
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4 posted 2005-08-12 12:09 PM


Like Dixie said ... damn !!! yes my son works in a old peoples nursing home , he curses often because the owners of the place are always trying to cut back on things to save money and they give a damn about the residents

Hope

Startime55
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since 2003-04-05
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Alberta, Canada
5 posted 2005-08-12 12:17 PM


I second everyones DAMN!!! Pain and truth bleed from every word...Write away...*big big hugs*

Martie
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6 posted 2005-08-12 02:00 PM


LeeJ

You pack a punch of truth!  

Toerag
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Ala bam a
7 posted 2005-08-12 02:40 PM


This is really "strong" gal...been there..done that...
ice
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since 2003-05-17
Posts 3404
Pennsylvania
8 posted 2005-08-12 09:39 PM


Raw and filled with emotion...ya gotta love this poem of gritty, human feelings and harsh situations...

I feel the course of loving blood flow across its lines, and the waves of frustration eminating from the writters brain

I third startimes second .. making the "damn" unanimous.

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[This message has been edited by ice (08-13-2005 07:14 AM).]

serenity blaze
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9 posted 2005-08-12 10:03 PM


Sometimes when I read you, I can only smile in admiration, before I think, "she and I would be dangerous together."

and man, when the rage gets contagious, watch 'em dole out the paxil and zanax...and a little clonopin?

*shrug*

A perfect patient who never complains.

Loved this, Lee.

Paul Wilson
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10 posted 2005-08-12 11:06 PM


Lee...What a dose of reality you have given us. I hope I never make you mad at me.LOL
Sounds like the ME GENERATION all over again. Thanks for sharing...Paul

Maybe you and Serenity should team up like she suggested and blow the socks off of us.

~~To share my poems with you is to share my heart with you~~
Paul

iliana
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since 2003-12-05
Posts 13434
USA
11 posted 2005-08-13 02:45 AM


LeeJ...first, I am sorry your mother is ailing.  Second, this is an extraordinary social write!!!  There are soooo many anaologies and truths in it, I cannot ennumerate.  You are right on the money (forgive the pun).  And I am outraged...have been for several years (after I began to wake up).  Brava, lady, brava!   .....jo

PS:  Although I never worked for the pharmaceutical industry, this still sounds alot like a big corporation where I used to work.

stevebrklynnyc
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GA, Camden
12 posted 2005-08-14 12:26 PM


Lee, this write packs one hell of a punch!  I know where you are coming from, I have seen it myself.  You use writing to sound off, my plan would put me in jail, hope everything works out, Steve.
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