Draft

Pain is the gateway drug

Once you lose the sensation for physical pain
and the absence of feeling overwhelms the thin lines cut into flesh
there are pills for that.
Analgesic pills: 1 for headaches, 10 for broken hearts
Blue and yellow pills for exhaustion
Tiny white ones for residual alertness
Green ones float you thru the anxiety
Big white ones for dizzying oblivion
A handful split up in a public bathroom
Trade 2 for a hit
these two should counteract each other
but like a frantic sublimation it rolls the mind
side effects may include
indifference, intensity, turning giddy or goo
Too many side effects to gauge
balancing and counter balancing with little helpers.
Effects may intensify with alcohol