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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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