This was published in a small literary newspaper called “the shade” in my hometown of Plymouth, MA when I was couch surfing in early 2013
got Type 2 diabetes
from eatin cookies and cake
permanent brain damage
from huffin gold spray paint
Hep c from the needles
liver damage from the booze
I'm playin Roshambo every day and I lose
this is real talk kid
I dont exaggerate
26 years old with an enlarged prostate
deviated septum
lung cancer from the reds
just to keep livin
I take like 32 meds
Herpes simplex types one and two
hey there shorty
can I holla at you?
Im a sick motherfucker I get worse every day
got an extra chromosome on my DNA
got no gall bladder
HIV from the bitches ran through a plate glass window
one hundred and eight stiches
I got a real bad habit
in a short life span
I am the gross domestic profit of afganistan
junk box to the core
my minds a dark dark place
shot 8 grams of bath salt
chewed off my girlfreinds face