I never could understand the attraction of that needle.
To be sure, everybody needs to get his head up now and then, but why that needle?
Why don’t junkies simply drink like everybody else?
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Drink takes you where you want to go, is relatively inexpensive, readily available and legal.
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Most pressingly, you have a general idea just what you’re ingesting with that bottle, an assurance you simply never have with that needle.
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More so yet, you don’t risk 20 years in prison for getting happy for a bit.
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Twenty-six dollars in my hand
Up to Lexington, 125
Feel sick and dirty, more dead than alive
I’m waiting for my man
Hey, white boy, what you doin’ uptown?
Hey, white boy, you chasin’ our women around?
Oh pardon me sir, it’s the furthest from my mind
I’m just lookin’ for a dear, dear friend of mine
I’m waiting for my man
Here he comes, he’s all dressed in black
Beat up shoes and a big straw hat
He’s never early, he’s always late
First thing you learn is you always gotta wait I’m waiting for my man
Up to a Brownstone, up three flights of stairs
Everybody’s pinned you, but nobody cares
He’s got the works, gives you sweet taste
Ah then you gotta split because you got no time to waste
I’m waiting for my man
Baby don’t you holler, darlin’ don’t you bawl and shout
I’m feeling good, you know I’m gonna work it on out
I’m feeling good, I’m feeling oh so fine
Until tomorrow, but that’s just some other time
I’m waiting for my man
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- The rich man ought not be taxed at all~~he ought be compelled to employ and train the poor man~~directly~~personally.
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My very last band played at a private party at Reed’s ex-wife’s house in Blairstown, NJ, about 15 years ago or so. He reportedly left a decent amount of money and investments when he died. I was superficially enamored by the punk movement back at St Pete’s in JC around the late 70’s and had met a few of these characters while partying with underground music journalists… wondering, when i get into my 30’s if i too would still be a drug-riddled punk hanging out in hollowed-out brownstones downtown in the E Village. Then i figured out that these things are better left to the entertainment world. But that didn’t happen until late 1988, when i had no choice but to quit an earlier popular band i was with on the night of a huge and important show in NYC because i decided that hugging a toilet at 5am praying to die before my 30th birthday was really no damned fun and not what i went to college to waste people’s money for…
In AA, they call this the “head-pops-out-of-ass” moment. I am extremely indebted to them, tho i do like my bourbon these days… much more quietly. 🙂
Thanks for this brilliant post, as always.
Apropos of drugs and by derivation, drinking, I wrote this at seminary many, many years ago.
“Drinking is something that must be done judiciously or not all. No man can tell another man if the other man is using drugs or drink judiciously. That is a question each man has to sort out for himself deep inside himself, deep inside his soul: Can I drink judiciously? If the answer is no, admit it bravely and do not drink at all.”