taking pain medication exactly as prescribed

repeated drawing, sorry. I used it a week ago.

taking pain medication exactly as prescribed

I am a drunk poet
Call me tanked, pickled, blitzed
too high    

White hot electric
the molten current scythes, 
skewering me
long past intermittent 
my familiar is now ever-present

carrying
decade on decade

Bracing compounds
torment upon agony

Gathering breath
calls in my unseen helpers

I turn to the skewer:
Sweetheart, come close
I too draw close to you
Here, we meet,
braid, merge