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Cocaine Lil and Morphine Sue
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Did you ever hear about Cocaine Lil?
She lived in Cocaine town on Cocaine hill,
She had a cocaine dog and a cocaine cat,
They fought all night with a cocaine rat.
She had cocaine hair on her cocaine head.
She had a cocaine dress that was poppy red:
She wore a snowbird hat and sleigh-riding clothes,
On her coat she wore a crimson, cocaine rose.
Big gold chariots on the Milky Way,
Snakes and elephants silver and gray.
Oh the cocaine blues they make me sad,
Oh the cocaine blues make me feel bad.
Lil went to a snow party one cold night,
And the way she sniffed was sure a fright.
There was Hophead Mag with Dopey Slim,
Kankakee Liz and Yen Shee Jim.
There was Morphine Sue and the Poppy Face Kid,
Climbed up snow ladders and down they skid;
There was the Stepladder Kit, a good six feet,
And the Sleigh-riding Sister who were hard to beat.
Along in the morning about half past three
They were all lit up like a Christmas tree;
Lil got home and started for bed,
Took another sniff and it knocked her dead.
They laid her out in her cocaine clothes:
She wore a snowbird hat with a crimson rose;
On her headstone you’ll find this refrain:
She died as she lived, sniffing cocaine
Wystan Hugh Auden
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Jennifer Reavis (4/27/2006 10:53:00 AM)
I read this for the first time in 9th grade (1986) and it had a significant impact on me, as my favorite uncle was a recovering cocaine addict. Little did I know, that I, myself, would become Cocaine Lil herself for five years of my life. I thought of this poem often during those dark times, but fortunately my ending was much different. Jennifer lived, but Lil did not. |
Stuart Mason (1/3/2006 5:47:00 PM)
Genius. |
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