31 May 96
You're a statistic
I read about the needles;
you stick in your arms.
The rehab clinics;
you have graduated from.
You think you’re different-
being a star and so on.
The more you try to be different-
the closer you are to the norm.
Yeah your music is great and all---
But you, you’re kind of dull.
so drugged up,
can't even crawl.
one dirty stinking sprawl.
You're a statistic,
one more addicted,
one more headline,
passing on.
CALDER WOLFE