POEM: Prescription for Addiction

I had been watching the news with a grimace and cringe
The world is unraveling and now starting to fringe
Misery after misery is tough to take in stride
A queasy eternity on a roller coaster ride

The economy sucks, the politicians “fixing” it are worse
Being addicted to the news is a verifiable curse
Wallowing in human horrors, I began to unhinge
So, on doctor’s orders, I went on a weed and booze binge


On my sister’s birthday, Egypt was set ablaze
But thankfully, I was in a Absolut Citron haze
I never once noticed the panic in Cairo’s streets
The only thing that mattered were the DJ’s phat beats

I didn’t realize the revolutions were starting to spread
Because I was popping pills like a reverse PEZ head
Libya’s leader has been striking his citizens all week long
The only thing I’m hitting is my two-foot bong.


While workers in Wisconsin worried their jobs would go missing
I was at the club Wurk, getting hyphy and thizzing
As the tension and anger reached an apogee
I crashed and fell to my bed in complete apathy

Riots and protests elsewhere seem inevitable too
But I have a hangover, calling in to work with the “flu”
With three days off, I smoke out everyone I see
Never watching CNN, but MTV, Bravo, and E!


While Japan was terrorized with tremors and quakes
My Bailey’s and coffee gave me nervous shakes
The next tragedy was a terrible, killer tidal wave
At the time, I was popping X at a killer rave

Nuclear meltdowns are imminent, thousands more could soon be dead
But don’t worry, I already am in the head
The technology we create will destroy us all
But drunk and gambling, I’m having a ball!


Drunk and dazed as I certainly may be
It seems the President is right there with me
Where’s the man who’s supposed to set the world right?
Even stoned, I heard about the White House Motown night.

We all feel it differently, to me it is that subtle cringe
But sometimes it is more like a hot knife’s stabbing twinge
We’re riding the Titanic, the world as we know it is about to end
So, what the hell? Let’s all just get high, my friend!