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[ SK ] Be My Guest
Addiction
---escape into a fictional world
and a rather easy getaway at that
though the hard irony is
that such make-believe realities
are the most difficult situations
to extract oneself from
A bystander with a crowbar
pulling you from an auto wreck
out in the middle of Nowhere
seems a more likely outcome
when too engrossed
to mark chapter's end
lay the book aside for now
on the coffee table and resume
daily life with all of its heartbreaks
but just as your fogged brain is clearing
the leading lover of that novelty romance
uses her powers of persuasion
to sweep you off those aching feet
lay your weary body on a downy bed
fill your stubborn mule pig head
again with sweet nothings lulling
as each spoon fed capsule
soothes the burning fragments
dulling
until the embered pain
is extinguished in a snowbank
along the main road to success
less travelled these days
You can't outrun the miseries of life
with fast cars and expensive champagnes
The hardest lesson learned is that
drying out requires a more
head on approach
preferably with a sledgehammer
However, a typewriter will suffice
provided you have
tomach enough to kill off
once upon a time cherished characters
standing between the wheelchair
and getting back on those feet;
more importantly, the resolve
---enough to strike the match
torch the manuscript of your old life
before shoving its flaming pages
down the throat of your
number one fan
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