What do you see when you close your eyes

[Kamandi]

‘Selling is more of a habit than using,’ Lupita says. Nonusing pushers have a contact habit, and that’s one you can’t kick. Agents get it too. Take Bradley the Buyer. Best narcotics agent in the industry. Anyone would make him for junk. (Note: Make in the sense of dig or size up.) I mean he can walk up to a pusher and score direct. He is so anonymous, grey and spectral the pusher don’t remember him afterwards. So he twists one after the other …

Well the Buyer comes to look more and more like a junky. He can’t drink. He can’t get it up. His teeth fall out. (Like pregnant women lose their teeth feeding the stranger, junkies lose their yellow fangs feeding the monkey.) He is all the time sucking on a candy bar. Baby Ruths he digs special. ‘It really disgust you to see the Buyer sucking on them candy bars so nasty,’ a cop says.

Bradley the Buyer from Naked Lunch by William Burroughs.

Drugs: 3
Non-drugs: not even in the game

[tiny_ham]

I took her out it was Friday night
I wore cologne to get the feeling right
we started making out and she took off my pants
but then I turned on the TV

And that’s about the time that she walked away from me
nobody likes you when you’re 23
and are still more amused by TV shows
what the fuck is a.d.d.?
my friends say I should act my age
what’s my age again?
what’s my age again?

• Blink 182…straightedgers who think drugs ‘aren’t cool’

[Fenris]

Just as a friendly aside, and remember I AM NOT A MOD!!!, the SDMB has frowned on posting anything more than a verse or two of copyrighted material.

Fenris

[tiny_ham]

But you posting the Raven in its entirety is ok? Is it public domain?

[Humble_Servant]

*Originally posted by Kamandi *
**Drugs: 3
Non-drugs: not even in the game **

Of course we don’t mean that people have to do drugs to write gud, right?

I think that the OP is so grating because it’s got that tang of teen indestructability/unexamined life. Can’t see the people for their frailties.

[Fenris]

*Originally posted by jarbabyj *
**But you posting the Raven in its entirety is ok? Is it public domain? **

The Raven is indeed public domain. To the best of my knowledge a good rule of thumb is that if it’s before 1906, it’s probably (but not always) in the public domain. If it’s after 1906, it may or may not be, but probably isn’t. I used to be able to keep track by which Oz books were being reprinted with the color plates, but a recent law/court decision changed things and now I don’t know. (The law had something to do with Disney and Sonny Bono. Or something). How 'bout THAT for marginally useful info?

On the other hand, posting all of The Raven probably wasn’t the best idea, public domain or no, as it’s f*cking huge and’ll make the page take forever to load.

Oops.

Fenris

[Ogre]

My apologies. If Black Sparrow still held the copyright to Bukowski’s work, they probably wouldn’t have had a problem with it, but HarperCollins now owns it, and I don’t know anything about them.

Would a mod please delete the Buk poem in my previous post and accept my apologies?

But if you’ve never read Bukowski’s mad, beat-up, alcoholic poetry, do yourself a favor and check it out. He wrote better, more touching material in the depths of a two-week bender than most people can do sober.

[Larry_Mudd]

'Twas brillig, and the slithy toves
Did gyre and gimble in the wabe;
All mimsy were the borogoves,
And the mome raths outgrabe.

“Beware the Jabberwock, my son!
The jaws that bite, the claws that catch!
Beware the Jubjub bird, and shun
The frumious Bandersnatch!”

He took his vorpal sword in hand:
Long time the manxome foe he sought–
So rested he by the Tumtum tree,
And stood awhile in thought.

And, as in uffish thought he stood,
The Jabberwock, with eyes of flame,
Came whiffling through the tulgey wood,
And burbled as it came!

One two! One two! And through and through
The vorpal blade went snicker-snack!
He left it dead, and with its head
He went galumphing back.

“And hast thou slain the Jabberwock?
Come to my arms, my beamish boy!
O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!”
He chortled in his joy.

'Twas brillig, and the slithy toves
Did gyre and gimble in the wabe;
All mimsy were the borogoves,
And the mome raths outgrabe.

Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, Laudanum (Tincture of opium.)

And of course, my spirit-mentor James Joyce dabbled a bit. "This way to the Museyroom! Mind your heads goin’ in!’

An’ of course ol’ Billy-boy was probably a head, too.

[Fenris]

*Originally posted by Ogre *
**But if you’ve never read Bukowski’s mad, beat-up, alcoholic poetry, do yourself a favor and check it out. **

I haven’t, but I will. I liked the one you posted.

[stofsky]

“In the ass, Bob.”

Score another for drugs.
*What, you don’t think she was sneaking out behind Studio 3A in Beautiful Burbank, California to puff the magic dragon? Look at the guy who was with her–if you had to see that many yards of polyester, you’d be sucking on a bong like it was the oxygen tank on Apollo 13 and Tom Hanks’ pecker wouldn’t get out of the way until you made him scream for his mommy.

[Miller]

*Originally posted by jarbabyj *
**- Blink 182…straightedgers who think drugs ‘aren’t cool’ **

I count this as another point for drugs.

[Morbo]

Waitaminute - this was supposed to be art??

Seemed more to me like things Alex would say when viewing those pictures after he’s been “cured” at the end of A Clockwork Orange:

“…Knickers… Cabbages… It doesn’t have a beak! HA HA HA!!!”

[hardygrrl]

She eyes me like a Pisces when I am weak
I’ve been locked inside your heart shaped box for weeks
I’m been drawn into your magnet tar pit trap
I wish I could eat your cancer when you turn black
…Kurt Cobain, “Heart Shaped Box”
Score another for drugs

[Miller]

My choice is what I choose to do,
And if I’m causing no harm, it shouldn’t bother you.
Your choice is who you choose to be,
And if you’re causin’ no harm, then you’re alright with me.
If you don’t like my fire, then don’t come around,
'cause I’m gonna burn one down.
Yes, I’m gonna burn one down.
-Ben Harper, pot head

Game, set, match.

[gobear]

Well, the Beatles are no doubt under copyright, so I guess the mods should delete all but a representative sampling. Sorry.

[whiteboy]

Drugs: infin-fuck-ity
sXe: infin-fuck-ity

More importantly, who cares?

[Com2Kid]

*Originally posted by Phlosphr *
**Regardless of what’s wrong with his diluded mind, he needs to get checked out. Unplug awhile, go take a walk…get some fresh air… Tell any admitting Doc what you think about people that take drugs…actually, print your little rant there and submit it to a psych nurse…then prepare yourself for a nice little trip… **

Sorry, doc agrees with me.

Multitudes of them.

People Who Do Drugs Have No Respect For Their Own Life.

I am seeing a psych ThankYouSoVeryMuch and I am considered to be perfectly well adjusted.

[Com2Kid]

*Originally posted by Kamandi *
**

Bradley the Buyer from Naked Lunch by William Burroughs.

Drugs: 3
Non-drugs: not even in the game **

Considering that entire thing you just quoted described how damned awful the effects of drugs are on a person. . . .

Did you even bother to read what you posted?

:rolleyes:

[Fenris]

*Originally posted by whiteboy *
**Drugs: infin-fuck-ity
sXe: infin-fuck-ity

More importantly, who cares? **

Drugs are infinity AND sex (misspelled) is also infinity?

What a profound statement you have made.

Please allow me to subscribe to your newsletter.

[OpalCat]

*Originally posted by Com2Kid *
**People Who Do Drugs Have No Respect For Their Own Life. **

And you know this for a fact? You have interviewed each drug user and have seen into their hearts? Puhleeeeze!

By the way, you do realize that one can be an occassional drug user without being a drug abuser or an addict, right?