An Addicts Poem: A selection of poems written through addiction and recovery.

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Although the title suggests otherwise, like Lucille Clifton’s cruelty, this speaker approaches her animal violence—here, mice killed to protect a bird feeder—matter-of-factly. The mouse deaths are simply a fact of her own life. With sonic and sensory images of the dead mice “like a pattern repeat/on a baby-crib sheet” and, an Olds classic, imagining her own conception as a “larder of eggs”“sent […] to hunt a sperm,” Olds suggests that the death of the mice is a fact of all life, as birth is a fact of life, her own lineage breeding a list of fathers, mothers, and daughters as endless as that pile of mice, just as “astonish[ed] to be” dead as they were to be living. When you call me I come, sometimes in disguise, Quite often I’ll take you by total surprise. But take you I will, and just as you’ve feared I’ll want only to hurt you, with no mercy spared.

Baby my life is full of scars in my brain from smoking shards everyday getting harder everyday trying to barter everyday just to send you messages everyday in any way that I can.Neil Steinberg: This is sort of a memory journey. Alcoholism is hereditary, partially genetic, so you get it and you know where it came from. So she’s remembering her mother and this terrible man that she was in love with. There’s this imagery of the suicide of the trout and the knife and the blood. She doesn’t have to say it, you just know it. Radiate boundless love towards the entire world above, below and across. Unhindered without ill will without enmity.” Oh Buddha the truth as it ever was. Together, we'll continue to remember [Deceased's Name] as a kind, loving, and selfless person, and not let his struggles with addiction define his memory. Our addicts will do what they want, when they want, with no regard for their own health and well being, or that of anyone else. That's the nature of addiction. Sadly, that is the truth that we have to face Neil Steinberg: I will. It does several things in the book. It comes after these lines of the Aeneid, and I want to read those first to put it in context.

Flip sided to those dizzying, tear jerking thoughts of suicide, annihilation of ones being, the contradictions of their faith in themselves and the people around them.

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Selling addiction and dependency legally to kids. Making heroine, ******* and speed easily obtainable to them. Changing the names and giving out prescriptions so the parents can feel like they're actually helping their children but are subconsciously making it easier on themselves because they cannot handle the way their offsprings actually are. Some parents a feel it is the only way, I wish it wasn't so. Becoming zombies, mindless addicts before they even start to mature into puberty. I've seen it, firsthand front row.

The rendition is a poignant story depicting the sad existence of many drug users. The verse uncovers and illuminates, step by step, the different stages of drug addiction and the mental processes of the unable to function drug users.There are many recovering addicts out there. Any NA convention is proof of it. I am in awe of them! When they tell their stories , they say that the best thing their families did for them was when they stepped out of the way, and let them really feel the pain of their poor choices. That was often the turning point.