‘Because you chose it.’
Says the author of the article
No one but me
a house of
I drank the flood &
its refusal
Of course I became
more drowned
& have no one
My friends
negotiated
into
This must have
as a choice.
up one day
to die
No one is an addict
eat of the tree and
What a relief to hear
the sickness &
there is
a tumor
made this body
burning vinegar.
to leave my mouth.
village than man
to blame.
smoked the pills,
the heroin
their blood.
began
We woke
and decided
from something horrible.
until they
its laughing fruit.
I am not sick but
no helping
already eating itself.