Poetry by Jim Nasium
They say one picture is worth 1000 words, I think that's the main reason I like to show some of my art with a poem I wrote
I hope you enjoy this new poem I call
An Easy Way Out: A Story Poem
An Easy Way Out
by Jim Nasium
Every day things just get worst for him
he just don't know what to do
he's tried everything he knows
to help him make it through
"love from friends and family
just ain't enough" he said
he knew an easy way out of it all
problem was he's have to be dead...
He sits up in his studio
just looking at the wall
waiting for an answer
but no answer comes at all
not sure if it's the right thing
but it seems like the best thing to do
he'll take the easy way out
if you were him, so would you...
He puts on his best summer suit
takes a cab to the bad side of town
he knows a little place he can go
the owner don't mind him coming round
the place was once a laboratory
now's it's a shooting gallery
a place to go when deep inside you know
there's only way way to break free
He rents a small back room
there's some pictures on the wall
he reaches in the drawer for a needle
he takes the biggest one he saw
he dumps a pile of powder
in a spoon with water waiting
cooks it up until it's clear
he's tired of hesitating...
he draws the clear hot liquid up
in the needle he holds in his hand
then he dumps some coke on the spoon
more than enough to kill a man
he lets it melt then he draws it up
in his needle full of slam
he'll take a speed ball straight to hell
even though no one will understand
He takes a good look at the needle
that's he's holding in his shaking hand
suddenly his dead friends are there with him
this wasn't part of the plan
all his old buddies who passed away
before him over the years from OD's
were standing around him quietly
they were where he wanted to be...
©2001 Jim Nasium
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