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Overdose as Inoculation

from Mythamphetamine by Eric Beeny

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In the War on Drugs
shoot heroin first—
narcotic dependence
on what doesn’t hurt...

Still you spend years
attempting to prevent
a cure for violence
and emotional outbursts...

History is a statue we carve,
our every decision chiseling away—
hard to discern the shape
through the dust
choking the air we breathe...

You can bury the hatchet
but not the corpse.

You’ve already grown bored
of what you’re fighting for.

How easily you forgive yourself
for taking more...

I clip obituaries like coupons,
too late to save all the lives you’ve spent.

Without consent, you prep
the needle to inject...

Hatred’s virus spreads—
compassion too sterile an epidemic,
just won’t infect...

Apocalypse on your tongue,
words pick off the breath
like a scab from the lung...

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from Mythamphetamine, released June 26, 2019

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