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Subject: SUBSTANCE ABUSE
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` ADDICT, by PHIL WEIDMAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: He's given up booze
Last Line: Hunger that gives %him no peace
Subject(s): Substance Abuse


BABY STEP, by ELOISE K. PODRAZA    Poem Source                    
First Line: Mamma's sad, veiled eyes
Last Line: Instead, elate in this moment %when I take one more step away
Subject(s): Substance Abuse


BOTTLE, by MARJORIE J. BEYER    Poem Source                    
First Line: Once you were my friend
Last Line: I will not call you friend again; %you lied
Subject(s): Substance Abuse


BROKEN GIRL, by JOAN LARKIN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Seconal and wine I lived on the street
Subject(s): Alcoholics & Alcoholism; Drugs & Drug Abuse; Substance Abuse Recovery; Narcotics; Opium; Cocaine; Crack; Heroin


CLOCK IN, by JAMES G. REDFERN    Poem Source                    
First Line: When I touched %the gauge
Last Line: ...Just another day on the job. %--clock in
Subject(s): Substance Abuse


COCA NUT'S UGLY TRUTH, by BOB D. BUCK    Poem Source                    
First Line: You little bitch %ripping out the pride and self-appreciation
Last Line: Grand mal %respiratory death %you little bitch cocaine
Subject(s): Substance Abuse


DENIAL, by BRIAN ELLICKSON    Poem Source                    
First Line: In the future will be love
Last Line: In the future will be the face %that I can show to the world
Subject(s): Substance Abuse


DOUBLE SIXTEEN, by STEPHEN SEDDON    Poem Source                    
First Line: I am double sixteen
Last Line: And it looks like %feels like %I will live %forever
Subject(s): Substance Abuse


EACH DAY: EACH MOMENT, by SUSAN KLINGMAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Alone in the dark fighting demons
Last Line: Each day is a fight. %each moment a struggle
Subject(s): Substance Abuse


ELEGY ON A QUID OF TOBACCO, by ROBERT SOUTHEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It lay before me on the close-grazed grass
Last Line: Thou didst thy duty, man can do no more.
Subject(s): Duty; Pleasure; Snuff (tobacco); Substance Abuse; Temptation; Addictive Behavior


EMMA, by CHUCK KRAMER    Poem Source                    
First Line: When I was drying out in the hospital
Last Line: Faded into the darkness with the pain that %ached in the echoes of her empty heart
Subject(s): Substance Abuse


EPITAPH FOR A VETERAN OF THE DRUG WAR, by WILL CASEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: He never licked it
Last Line: He lived fast %died young %and left a seventy pound corpse
Subject(s): Substance Abuse


EVEN STILL, by W. E. HARVEL    Poem Source                    
First Line: Now - even still... %after all you've taken from me
Last Line: But just for today %it's not enough to take you back
Subject(s): Substance Abuse


EYES BELIEVE, BUT THE LEFT BRAIN WANTS TO KNOW, by WALTER ROBERT MCDONALD    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The eyes believe whatever they take in
Last Line: Smoke collecting from both ears again
Alternate Author Name(s): Mcdonald, Walt
Subject(s): Smoking; Substance Abuse


FOG, by JEFFREY SPAHR-SUMMERS    Poem Source                    
First Line: The fog has cleared now
Last Line: Laid out like the yellow brick road %and I know this is the way I must go
Subject(s): Substance Abuse


GENERATIONS, by LINDA K. MILLER    Poem Source                    
First Line: Today, my mother is seventy-one
Last Line: They love me, but-- %god, I'm so much like her
Subject(s): Substance Abuse


GRIEVING, by CHUCK KRAMER    Poem Source                    
First Line: When her husband died - the
Last Line: Eyes never dared to condemn his %whiskey dance with the %devils in his soul
Subject(s): Substance Abuse


HE WALKED OUT. I COULDN'T SHOUT, by BEVERLY JOHANSSON    Poem Source                    
Last Line: Recovery! Serenity! %life for me - now full and free
Subject(s): Substance Abuse


HELP! AL-ANON NEEDED HERE, by CATHLEEN SCHANDELMEIER    Poem Source                    
First Line: Talkin' with my boss
Last Line: But I don't want it %no more %I can't stand it %no more
Subject(s): Substance Abuse


HITCHHIKER, by CHUCK KRAMER    Poem Source                    
First Line: She always %needed a ride
Last Line: Her heart %and blinded %her cold %highway %hungry eyes
Subject(s): Substance Abuse


HOW THE HEALING TAKES PLACE, by JOAN LARKIN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: How the face changes, the cloud
Last Line: Stones from entrances
Subject(s): Substance Abuse; Healing


IN MY MIND I SEE LIQUOR AS A LADY, by CATHLEEN SCHANDELMEIER    Poem Source                    
First Line: Tempting ;you with her
Last Line: I'd change into alchol %just to be a part of you
Subject(s): Substance Abuse


LIKE FATHER, LIKE SON, by CHUCK KRAMER    Poem Source                    
First Line: My son %sneers at me with that
Last Line: Kissed my %lips to the %sterility of %addiction
Subject(s): Substance Abuse


LIVING LIFE'S EDGE, by THOMAS R. MASH    Poem Source                    
First Line: Sirens blare %in the dead of the night. Mothers stir; fathers
Last Line: Keep running %faster, faster to your supplier... %cause you're always running on life's edge!
Subject(s): Substance Abuse


LOVE POEM TO STEVEN, by NATALIE KENVIN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Rust on the razor
Last Line: It's a time of scraps, %cold bonds
Subject(s): Drugs And Drug Abuse; Love; Man-woman Relationships; Substance Abuse


MAGGOT, by JANICE MURPHY    Poem Source                    
First Line: I've got a solid gold maggot with obsidian eyes
Last Line: It is too hard to tear the messle and the muddle apart
Subject(s): Substance Abuse


MARIJUANA NOTATION, by ALLEN GINSBERG    Poem Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: How sick I am
Subject(s): Substance Abuse; Addictive Behavior


MOTHER, by SUZAN EREM    Poem Source                    
First Line: I wonder sometimes %if she still lies
Last Line: When I take %the sip %that makes us %stink
Subject(s): Substance Abuse


MOTHER JUNKIE, by CLARENCE MAJOR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: She has the shakes, thinks she's gonna die
Last Line: To the east river, five blocks away
Subject(s): Drugs & Drug Abuse; Medicine; Substance Abuse; Narcotics; Opium; Cocaine; Crack; Heroin; Drugs, Prescription; Addictive Behavior


MOTHER'S MILK & VODKA, by LES STASEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Babies %and %old men
Last Line: Cradle to the grave %the lessons %we learn %fill %us up. %some of us wait to be drained
Subject(s): Substance Abuse


MYSTERIOUS LIQUIDS, by JOHNNY MASIULEWICZ    Poem Source                    
First Line: Streams %streams of sun
Last Line: Another 4:30 a.M. Morning %with mysterious liquids %in my bed
Subject(s): Substance Abuse


NIGHTTIME EUPHORIA, by JAMES G. REDFERN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Sitting in my garden
Last Line: Sacrificial, %cement-laden pain. %at night, %it's euphoria
Subject(s): Substance Abuse


NO REPLY, by JEFFREY SPAHR-SUMMERS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Pity is a four letter word
Last Line: Why you were left alone, %truthfully %it never replies
Subject(s): Substance Abuse


ORPHEUS PLAYS THE BRONX, by REGINALD SHEPHERD    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When I was ten (no longer
Subject(s): Mothers; Substance Abuse; Childhood Memories


QUITTING SMOKING, by LORNA CROZIER    Poem Source                    
First Line: The phone says smoke when it rings, the radio says smoke, the tv
Last Line: Cameo
Subject(s): Smoking; Substance Abuse


REMEMBERING BAR-HARBOR, by CYNTHIA CANNON    Poem Source                    
First Line: At times %I miss the scotch-lit afternoons
Last Line: From our safe and scotch-lit harbor %through the storm-filled night, toward home
Subject(s): Substance Abuse


SKIP THE WORDS -- SUPPLY THE DEEDS, by CATHLEEN SCHANDELMEIER    Poem Source                    
First Line: You're so full of it
Last Line: So, skip the words %supply the deeds
Subject(s): Substance Abuse


SPOON RIVER GARLAND: 6. ADDICTION, by MICHAEL JOSEPH BUGEJA    Poem Source                    
First Line: I had one wife and one dependency
Last Line: Back to her. One day it followed me home
Subject(s): Drugs And Drug Abuse; Marriage; Substance Abuse


STEPS, by WILL CASEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Where it took me
Last Line: Save your money, brother %enjoy the walk, I'm with you
Subject(s): Substance Abuse


STORM OF ADDICTION, by JANE ASIMUS    Poem Source                    
First Line: The lightning showsits face again
Last Line: Mama, can't you see? %there's a storm raging in my heart!
Subject(s): Substance Abuse


THERE GOES THE NEIGHBORHOOD, PT.#2, by JAMES G. REDFERN    Poem Source                    
First Line: The stereo was on
Last Line: Threw the old can out the window, %sat down at the typewriter %and wrote this poem
Subject(s): Substance Abuse


TOBACCO, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Nothing in the world like it; you can tell aristotle.'
Last Line: At how much it costs, think too what fun it is
Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S.
Subject(s): Lungs; Smells; Smoking; Substance Abuse


WAGON MASTER, by JEFFREY SPAHR-SUMMERS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Grab the edge if you must
Last Line: And you might chance to ride %like a sailor flying a sobering wind
Subject(s): Substance Abuse


WOMAN WHOSE HUSBAND CHOSE BEER, by KIM BEREZ    Poem Source                    
First Line: She used to have breasts
Last Line: The shape of punctuation anymore %she slumbers %& doesn't dream
Subject(s): Substance Abuse


WORDS, by C. J. LAITY    Poem Source                    
First Line: The woman descends the stairs
Last Line: Her words linger in his living ears %long after he finishes writing this poem
Subject(s): Substance Abuse


YOU AGAIN, by RON PADGETT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I think I'm smoking too much too many cigarettes
Last Line: Every day this week and I'm glad I don't drink so there
Subject(s): Fire; Smoking; Substance Abuse; Tobacco; Pipes; Cigars; Cigarettes; Addictive Behavior