Keep playing head games with myself
that I can see the world again
through filtered eyes
former ‘friends’ screaming
“Love Me Love Me!”
from the psychedelic boulevard
where I once crawled

But “No!”
the common sense definitive advises
“It’ll be written all over your many faces”
as the people who love me cheer me on
for having stopped my addiction
while noisily sucking back their drinks

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12/27/2021

Posted on 12/27/2021
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