guzzling drug cocktails
with champagne
Janet Kuypers
(02/17/12)
so
why can famous people
michael jackson
anna nicole smith
so why
can the rich stars
get duplicate prescriptions
of pharmacy medications —
doctors give them papers
for a rainbow of drugs —
so they can
have a few drinks,
mix a few pills, and
o.d. on prescription drugs?
with doctor slips
and pharmacy visits
they can party like a rock star
‘til they legally overdose.
so why can the famous
o.d. on prescription drugs
and i can’t buy
two packs of sudafed
(‘cause you know,
my sinuses can kill me) —
why is it that i can’t buy
two packs of sudafed
after returning from a trip
where I bought sudafed?
is it that
when you’ve got it all
the wealth,
the adoration
everyone bends over
backwards
to get you anything
and everything you want
(it doesn’t matter whether
or not it’s for your own good —
with all that money,
with all that fame,
you’re too important
to need a guardian)...
so is it that
the rich and famous
get any drug
and every drug they want
and us regular joes
us coffee diner junkies
have the government
breathing down our backs
about non-prescription
sinus medication?
i mean,
i know there are some
who want to
convert these o.t.c. drugs
to make them something
that’s a whole lot of illegal
but why,
if the government
is not stopping
the rich, the wealthy,
the revered
from offing themselves
why are they
so concerned
with some idiots back here
doing the same?
i mean,
why
do us regular joes
us coffee diner junkies
have to suffer
the consequences
of people
at opposite ends
of a spectrum
we’ll never touch,
because we’re always
stuck in he middle?
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