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All in the Family

James Livingston

Wintergreen
Camphor
Phenobarb sedative
For chronic Bronchitis
And hypomania
To sleep every night
For three high school years

Then my young son
We didn’t have to lock you up
In your bedroom
For mania
but for three urban weeks
Giving you pheno
For only three nights
In the country
At the lake

Then youthful adult
Three years of extreme mania
8 hours cop,
8 hours firefighter
8 hours EMT
Round the clock
For twelve straight days
Then resting 2 -
Back at it again

Now calmed down adult
Pain clinic charge nurse

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