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sobriety isn’t the same thing as falling down a mountain

By J. David

 

 

an addict’s hands / tremble / like a cave of bats / every thought /

tastes like relapse / i pull my veins / out of my arm / tie them /

to a kite / pray they get lost / in the storm

 

 

 

J. David is a spoken word artist from Cleveland, Ohio, and the author of  The Streetlight and The Supernova. Most days he spends driving, or dreaming of the way a slow train rolls through Georgia pines at midnight under a clear sky. His name feels heavy, so he sits under rain clouds trying to feel clean.

Filed Under: Poetry Tagged With: Issue Seven

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