Mark Vaness
Your are the third junkie
I write about
dead………
rat poison hot shotted
into your veins shocking
you into a state of realization
that you was being murdered
to facilitate the robbings
of a few miserable bucks
into your pockets by your
“friends” cut buddies
who’ll let you bleed to death
cold hearts that will throw
you in a garbage can,
paranoic animals
victims of their own anxieties
seeking to extinguish their pain
with your agony
and now you are a corpse
no longer rigor mortis
perhaps rotted decayed flesh
rat poison to embalm in justice
injected into your vein to kill your agony
only to kill you, wasted forgotten now
pushing up poppies in a pauper’s grave.
You are the third junkie I write about
poisoned like a rat is an ugly way to die.
Rights: Miguel Rodríguez; Arte Público Press
