I didnt know what I was getting myself into…
heroin
Street corners, and Rolling Stones, amphetamines, clouded memory…what was I just saying. Speed Kills, powders, test-tubes, and bunsun burners. Inner city blues, shrieks thru the night as the city comes to life. Red and Blue lights flashing ’round and ’round. Two for one after dark. Yellow eyes, shining with infection. Down with disease, and I am laughing at the begining of dawn, pencil in my hand, and sauce-sized pupils staring back at me. Depth of field is blurred, you dont care if you live or if you die.
A fistfulla dollars somebody crying for a fix, another turning trix, yet another robbing you blind. Conscious of a robot, programed for Stoned Immaculation. Enter the war zone to get your medicine fix, cartoon like pimps, and scragely street corner tricks. Industrial size horse needles, 23 gauge you think I give a fuck. Refill my syringe with a rain puddle, watching the rainbows of gasoline ripple away from the point. Gotta let that deal go down, your stomache is in your mouth and your mouth explodes your foamy puke, but the dry heaves, oh man, oh man, as the plastic crack smoke comes ringing out your ears.
You kick yourself and bitch and moan, motherfucker its 5am why is my dope spot only selling rocks, I am sick as a dog, why am I smoking crack? The bellringing, electrifing buzz, rips you into the world of a paranoid. My mind zips thru the glossy pages of the 2005 PDR I was memorizing while nodding out last night. Squirming in my flesh. I flip flop the decisions: should I go to the ‘McDonalds Pill spot’ I know my imprint codes like some people know the current events. Baseball, hotdogs, applepie, amphetamines, and lsd. Or should I buy a few more rocks and wait on the bag man and his “15 minutes” and the blows will be out. [I.E. blows = smack, chunky rocky off white powder behold the power of numbness of the mind]. I decide to buy another rock, head toward the pill spot to try and pick up a gulp fulla methadone, or dilaudid or fentanyl.
I really dont want eaither of the three but I am sick, my skin is gray, I am a wreck, I think about smashing my car into the stop-light just to get a piddly morphine drip. Criminal element, tappin the phone. Riding in second gear in the pre-dawn ghetto, the snow banks are gray, the scene seems to be watercolor washed with a eiree smokey dull gray. The only light comes from the broken glass as it glitters on the street, thought you had a gram, popin ativan, triple chekcin’ your pockets. Nose dripping like a ghetto motel bathroom facuet. My and a friend have been staying at the Shamrock Hotel puffing on botanicals to get our heads clear. Much like a cold winter night warming around the bonfire. Except its 8am we have been up since last Friday, minus the unconscious nod-outs. We met a prostitute next door that instead of turning tricks is more happy to swarm around the red-hot glass pipe, as chunk after chunk of crack gets melted into the brillo. I have a slight fear about her pimp coming for his money and finding her with a couple of out-of-place doped-up-junky-fucks. An odd sentiment waterfalls over the scenerio as the prostitute eye’s us both and asks if we want our cocks sucked for another few hits. Shit naw, we want to flood our bloodstream with a backwash of liquified heroin. RIP>…..
I pass a side street off Independece Ave, on my way towards the Mcdonalds [pills-a-go-go]. Last minute decision I whip the wheel and slide into the turn slipping on the unplwed and icey side streets. Boom into the curb, fucked up my steering, I spit out of the window as I lean back and flame the craack pipe with two plastic lighters that have been busted open and the flame turned up to a height of about 2-3 inches.
Roast bitch roast.
Clouds of smoke billow out my window as I unroll it at the next corner, I cant hear the dealers at first as I am deaf from the crack rush, my heart beating literally from my chest, addicted to addiction.
Blows you got blows? Is all I can must, Yeah Joe… Whatchoo want? I’ll take 3, no make that 4 [I am not wasting my money, better known dope is to be had]. Ripping the bags open as I drive I balance my upturned popcan on my legs, I drop in 3 bags a mountain of powder gets liquified by my syringe. Cotton gets dropped in and the nice tan colored water sucken up. I tie off with my seatbelt and pull over to the curb on some street, I dont care where the fuck I am. I lunge the needle into my arm pulling it half way out slightly geeked from the crack, my hands are shaking. I hit a vein and slam the plunger home, ahhh. Mother dearest I love you but motherfuck do I love you heroin.
I grab some xanax from the glove compartment and pop 4mg to help with my shakes. I cruize the McPill-spot… typical sellers are out, codiene, hydrocodone, oxycodone, methadose, morphine [only MScontins over priced], dilaudid. 4mg Knoll’s for 5 a pop, I buy 2 and go thru the drive thru ordering a Cherry coke, I crush the pills and empty them into the upturned pop can, I sprinkle my last bag of smack over the pills. Water, cotton, injection. FUCKKKkkk…
I drift back head slaming back into my head rest eyes fluttering riding the rush like a rollercoaster, if I die at least they will find me with a smile on my face. Straight up fucked up, pulling curbies as I try to drive. Mirrow, blade, and a pile of pure… Will I ever change, guess it all depends bottles and cans, seeds and stems, can I borrow another tomorrow. Gritting my teeth I want more, more, more…
I stop off a a corner gas station and buy a mini bottle of Vinegar I my way back to my main dope spot the time is approaching 6:13′ish as the morning commute is starting to pick-up I notice the bus-stops are being filled up the faces all a blur to me. Back at my favorite dope spot at the time, my dealer has finally got his lazy ass outta bed, bout fucking time shit. I feed this fucker hundreds of dollars a day, I dont even like to think about it after 3 days worth of ca$h.
Whats up drew…? Shit man, fucking sick, I need 2 packs and 3 rocks, where were you earlier? Shit drew this is earlier. I lean back and adjust the radio, hoping my god will save my soul, talk radio, shitty pop, music, I throw In some Morphine ‘Cure for Pain’ and watch ‘Slim’ run back up to my car with my 24 bags of heroin and 3 rocks. I notice multiple other cars are starting to pull up as they see the spot is open slanging that super smack. Slim hands me my taped and sealed packs, and throws me 5 rocks, on the house Drew. Thanks, catch ya tomorrow I mumble as I am driving away and he is running up to the next car. I shoot some crack, slam another bag, and than retreat into isolation untill the sickness creeps back.
Inflicted with the madness of addiction and I just cant get enought of it. I crave it like a 14 yr old craves lsd on home-coming weekend, like a 17 yr old craves, pussy on prom night.
Just walk away… To much wrong for me to stay, Just walk away…
Instant Karma’s gonna get you
Gonna knock you right on the head
You better get yourself together
Pretty soon you’re gonna be dead
What in the world you thinking of
Laughing in the face of love
What on earth you tryin’ to do
It’s up to you, yeah you
Well we all shine on
Like the moon and the stars and the sun
Yeah we all shine on…
The hairs stood up on my arms, as I heard this song wash over the radio I was listening to as I was jotting down incoherent notes as I watched NOVA on the television screen. Instantly a voice came over than me told me to copy those opening lyrics into a journal post, and than just let what comes to mind flow out.