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    American Junkie "Life, Love, and Loss": A Poetry Collection
    American Junkie "Life, Love, and Loss": A Poetry Collection
    American Junkie "Life, Love, and Loss": A Poetry Collection
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    American Junkie "Life, Love, and Loss": A Poetry Collection

    By James Hamilton

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    American Junkie "Life, Love, and Loss" marks the first internationally published collection of poetry from Author James Hamilton.

    The collection is an original, unflinching, and visceral look into the sometimes shocking, personal drug culture in America. The afflicted, sometimes gloss over the ghastly damage inflicted on lovers and other family members, however, "Junkie" aims to give these forgotten victims a voice in the mire.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherXlibris US
    Release dateJun 22, 2021
    ISBN9781664173156
    American Junkie "Life, Love, and Loss": A Poetry Collection
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    James Hamilton

    James Hamilton is an artist and designer who lives in San Mateo, California.

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      American Junkie "Life, Love, and Loss" - James Hamilton

      INTRODUCTION

      Awl Father

      You dead to me

      Yet still busting through my walls

      Wrecking unholy havoc,

      on my fragile sanity

      Awl Father-

      You dead to me.

      Inherited Violence,

      Violent Language,

      The Spewing Bile;

      The Spewing all your Profanity

      Raw Father-

      You Dead to Me.

      An imposing figure,

      Fucking Figure.

      No Shared Humanity.

      Mission Control Missions,

      Down from Outer Space

      In a Dust Vacuum

      Of Vacuum Dust

      We dont share a face.

      But actions shared actions?

      Actions of your past?

      Feed actions of My Day

      Awl Father-

      You are better farther away.

      Farther better Father

      I’ll find a Way.

      Ill Travel, Time Travel

      To Not See

      You-

      Another Day…

      FIRST

      Resolution Geometry

      And so-

      Another page is turned.

      More time has come to pass.

      The old one burned, so sure,

      I raised a glass.

      Rules, Rules

      Bring in the new.

      Out with the old.

      Save those new shapely shapes,

      toss away our worn, broken molds.

      What is behind is left,

      out, trapped in the shapeless cold.

      This Resolution Formula,

      Square, but Tried and True.

      Has me left feeling lost, an

      of Melancholy Blue

      I look at all the angles,

      observe lines, both petite and bold

      Maybe I’ll ask a Palm Reader -

      What does my future hold?

      What should I change of the shapes I’ve made?

      So others can hear the sound.

      As I sing today; unashamed,

      my old familiar song.

      The melody, while different now,

      certainly, cannot be wrong.

      Nearly fifty times I have seen this change.

      Tunnel of time, Open,

      for passage through.

      I remember not,

      Who was the first to say:

      On this Day of Starts, Delayed

      And,

      At which Point those Lines should Intersect,

      and why Shapes and Lines must Change.

      Two by Two Petite - Or Me?

      So Bold; Direct! as Three.

      I wonder where my Triangle will fit.

      Perhaps as a Wedged Root on this day’s

      Geometric Tree?

      The Choice

      Affection or Affliction; choose.

      It sounds easy, right?

      But do yourself a favor and

      take a moment before you do.

      Ask yourself-

      Which one are you closer to?

      Which one will you choose to use?

      Or maybe it’s you that’s getting used?

      Go on ask yourself -

      Which one always helps you win?

      Which one always makes you lose?

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