addiction

addiction
the doctors only showed their passion
when they disagreed together
the callers seemed to know much more
and so I began to wonder whether...
one copes with medical status quo
where addiction is disease
and people's pasts are guilty as.......
you can pass the jack daniels please
 
then someone who'd actually been there said
he regrets he told kids lies
promoting unattainable ideals
and how jonathon seagull flies!
 
I had a herd, a cult experience
where I was duly preyed upon
white anglo-saxon-male control
you touch me and I'm gone
a lack, now caught up in aa web
a contemporary malady spun
missing spiritual thread, now abstinence
a double for the price of one
another describing the very same place
owes his life right there
another, hypnotherapy
lightened the cross she couldn't bear
 
I wonder why I gambled the house
and squandered my family
but something deep knew I couldn't take
.....such responsibility
 
give up that dreadful smoking
that addictive propensity
and take these pills forever
no-one will ever see
 
but addiction's perhaps not all that bad
just a matter of degree?
beneath our suffering is personal angst
we need other folk perhaps to see
till the pain outweighs the pleasure
cool me, just me, poor me
there but for the grace of god go I
poor me, just me, cool me
 
a doctor admitted diabetic traits
but that's heredity!
I think I'll take a coffee break
sugar? yes give me three!
 
I get roughed up and loved around
grog drugs sex pornography
I get shoved around like this
desperately trying to be me
 
one day I found out who I was
not who I ought to be
and that I actually had a place
cool me, poor me, just me
 
copyright 2002 bob tatnell
australia's most just poet
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