VICODIN

Vicodin is good for you
Vicodin will take away
your pain

Vicodin & beer
is even better

Vicodin & beer & smoke
Vicodin & TV & the sofa

Vicodin & Jesus
Vicodin & the Christian
Broadcasting Network

Vicodin & your dead cat
Vicodin & your wife's tears
Vicodin & the cancer
that eats what you love

Vicodin & Buddha
Vicodin & the void
Vicodin & nothing else
to believe in

Vicodin & dusty books
Vicodin & old letters
Vicodin & sad & sudden
phone calls

Vicodin & everybody's mother
Vicodin & universal fate
Vicodin & the whispers
of a sinner

Vicodin & choosing
Vicodin & breaking what is holy
Vicodin & losing
what never can come back

Vicodin & scribbling
Vicodin & dreaming this
Vicodin & nodding
through tomorrow.