You may very well be the only USAmerican poet 'who ever put Richard Topcliffe into a poem,’ Ken, but so early, & the rest gets to the hurting point. I like the slide from the Beatles to Schubert…
Ah, yes, the fact that opoids are now more sought after than all the ‘criminalized’ drugs. Wow.
Yep; less pain still feels good….
Doug
On Nov 23, 2014, at 3:15 AM, Bill Wootton <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Well you're still whole as a poet even if reduced to demi-man status, Ken. Spirited poem. Not dark yet but getting shady eh.
>
> Bill
> On 23/11/2014, at 9:17 AM, Kenneth Wolman wrote:
>
>> TRAMADOL
>>
>> Little voice like the German kill guys
>> in The Big Lebowski: "Ve're gonna come back,
>> Lebowski, and cut your johnson off, we're
>> gonna really fohck you up!"
>> You mean there's something left
>> to fohck up? You mean I'm not already dead?
>> You mean you're not Sir Richard Topcliffe,
>> Elizabeth Tudor's prized priest-hunter,
>> traitor killer, who could spend 30 minutes
>> coaxing from the body some poor ordained soul
>> via his cockandballs? Skillful, indeed an artist,
>> who would demonstrate for the cheering
>> crowd each stage of his work,
>> until the victim was allowed at last to die.
>>
>> So this new art of the doctor's arsenal,
>> my ode at last to Tramadol, to turn pain
>> from endlessness into a thing controllable,
>> take one of these every 8 hours,
>> don't overdo it, this stuff will really
>> fohck you up, make me unable to perform
>> like some guy in an ED commercial,
>> like I'm supposed anymore to care.
>> There's no one here to receive what I've
>> left behind. Surcease of pain matters
>> more than getting off my tired rocks,
>> nice as that was. My tastes have evolved,
>> I'm a Beatles song, not half the man
>> I used to be. All I dream of now is dreams,
>> of sleeping at my desk listening to Schubert,
>> dreaming not of fucking but of driving a car,
>> no, not into a tree, but to the next rest area.
>> This one is nice but I want shade trees.
>>
>
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