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Compassion For My Grandmother Lost In A Pharmacy

from Normal Human Being by Justin Blackburn

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My grandma like them pills ya'll! This poem is from "You Are Not A Normal Human Being" available at www.virgograypress.com

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Compassion For My Grandmother Lost In A Pharmacy

Each western bone in her deserted desert dry body is an orphan
buried under dirt for centuries,
no one is searching
for her
face
like her father’s first catcher’s mitt.

It is as if her skin is dead
and her heart beats barely
by the sad thoughts in her head
that think she is still alive.

I drive her to the pharmacy to get her prescriptions filled.
What is left of her eyes lights up like a meth-head
who randomly finds his face on a hundred dollar bill,
a dead child in a candy store.

She looks up at me with a missing teeth searching smile,
“I need this for my nausea, this for my headaches, this for my
fevers, this for my
diarrhea, this for my decomposing skin”

“Grandma, what the fuck?” I hastily implore.
“You do not need any of this bullshit. Your
addiction to all these goddamn pills is
why you only weigh seventy five pounds, why you
can’t sleep, why you are depressed watching soap operas all day,
and why you are dying
a slow miserable death. This is what is killing you,
you need passion, joy, beauty, you
need life.”

“But Justin….” Sorrow sinks her long cylindrical shaped sailboat.


I look up at the pharmacist. “You are killing my grandmother, you new
world order illuminati machine servant of mediocre madness.”

I walk out to the car scared to death of my multi layered reality,
turn Coma Cinema on and wait…
wait for anger to leave my liver
for blame to swallow his teeth
for pain to jump off the cliff into the river,
I wait for the great gentle feather of compassion
to drop on to the hood of my car
while remembering my grandmother
chasing my childhood into the ocean.

How can the most beautiful people become sick enough to die?
Compassion for the fattest, stupidest, stickiest man alive.
Compassion for the prettiest girl with the most beautiful eyes.


This poem is from "You Are Not A Normal Human Being" available at www.virgograypress.com

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from Normal Human Being, released October 31, 2012

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Justin Blackburn Oklahoma

My name is Justin Blackburn and i am author and poet. This is a collection of performance poems entitled "Normal Human Being" Lots of these are from my latest collection of poetry "You Are Not A Normal Human Being" available at www.virgograypress.com You can buy it and it will make your life better. Lots of wisdom. I love you. You are wonderful. I hope you love yourself. ... more

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