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Brother, Oh Brother
Contributed by
Greenpostit
on
Monday, 1st March 2010 @ 02:09:24 PM in AEST
Topic:
DarkPoetry
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A straggly growth of beard;
slimy, yellow teeth, those that were.
Matted, graying hair, thin enough on top to show the scabs,
torpid, unfocused eyes, glazed over and red.
Slumping, nervous, scratching, squirming under restraints;
Mumbling, licking, unable to use his mouth for it’s purpose.
Mindless, craving, desperate for drink and nicotine.
Hearing things no one else could hear,
seeing things no one else could see.
Laughing, crying, feeling pains both physical and imagined.
No friends, no loved ones; all alone save for those trying to save
his pitiful, drunken, hallucinating life for the sheer challenge.
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Greenpostit
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2010-03-01 14:09:24] (Date/Time posted on
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Re: Brother, Oh Brother
(User Rating: 1 ) by northernlights on
Tuesday, 2nd March 2010 @ 12:08:32 AM AEST (User
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Very descriptive creating the very real and very sad world of an alcohollic,through my work I have seen this first hand and seeing an intelligent sensitive charasmatic man destroyed in this way still fills me with a deep sense of sadness |
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