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    The Shadow of an Addict: A Collection of Poetry
    The Shadow of an Addict: A Collection of Poetry
    The Shadow of an Addict: A Collection of Poetry
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    The Shadow of an Addict: A Collection of Poetry

    By Matthew Ganem and Jrock Publishing

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    A collection of poetry about addiction by Matthew Ganem
    LanguageEnglish
    PublishereBookIt.com
    Release dateApr 26, 2016
    ISBN9781456605179
    The Shadow of an Addict: A Collection of Poetry

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      Book preview

      The Shadow of an Addict - Matthew Ganem

      The Shadow

      of an

      Addict

      A collection of poetry by

      Matthew Ganem

      CHAPTER 1: CONFESSIONS OF A POET

      THE DEEPEST ADDICTION IN ME

      The pen is my needle

      Injecting words of dope

      An escape for my everyday evil

      A rush that helps me to cope

      Paper is packages of Oxy’s

      Lines I crush in my mind

      This wall of writer’s blocking me

      Snorting gagger’s of rhymes

      Thoughts of ecstasy I keep

      Scribbles inside my hidden fantasies

      Trapped by the special K in me

      I’m falling in a hole of poetry

      Acid tablets wrapped in magic

      Hallucinations of the stories I write

      Love notes smell like burning plastic

      When I place my heart inside a crack pipe

      Blunts of ideas burn slower than weed

      Self-medicated pain killers

      Are stanzas of stress relief

      Portraits painted perfect in past pictures

      Images of chasing the dragon

      Tar stained steps on the tin foil road I walk

      Speed balling is my passion

      Melting down rock with vinegar thoughts

      Shooting up metaphors

      For a rush of similes

      Expanding what poems explore

      The deepest addiction in me

      Whatever drug I choose to do

      The pen and page combine a perfect fix

      Regardless of the feeling I was use to

      I never felt a high like this

      MY STORY HAS TO BE TOLD

      Written in the skyline of Boston

      Words that were once too blurry for me

      Looking up from the darkness of rock bottom

      I kept climbing and eventually I was be able to see

      The time release coating

      I lick off of the best pain killers

      Destroy any feeling of my emotion

      A reflection of a skeleton in the mirror

      An OxyContin love thing began

      As the cool thing to do with friends

      Snort a half a pill to get jammed

      I never envisioned where it would take me in the end

      Shirts covered with yellow and green marks

      White powder residue on the table

      Names soon got tattooed to my heart

      After addiction transformed them into angels

      No stopping this rolling boulder

      As packages started making me money

      There wasn’t a moment I was sober

      But I swore to god I wasn’t a junkie

      More pills, more crime

      The more I got fucked up in the head

      A synthetic narcotic left me blind

      Invincible, without a care if I ended up dead

      Masked armed robberies

      Risking parts of my freedom

      The time would compare to pennies

      Not worth it to go to prison

      My habit became too strong

      Pushing packs and stick ups weren’t enough

      Then my lady heroin came along

      With a taste of the devils lust

      I sold my soul for a filled syringe

      Moving death wrapped in plastic

      Losing my will to live

      As an addict prepared for a casket

      Blue lights flashing

      Plain clothes hemmed me up

      A snitch left me trapped in

      The Narco units drug bust

      I had to forward my cash to a lawyer

      If I had any chance to fight the case

      Didn’t stop the emotional

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