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Hi Bluelighters~!
This is my first blog on BL, so bare with me and my skills.

I'm a life time addict with current Psychedelic use. Ive experimented with Lsa/Nutritious oxide/Weed/DXM/Conserta and adderall.

About a year ago October 2009, I learned about Psychedelics and what they are capable of. I'm completely experienced with dxm use, it being my strong point and drug of choice.

Recently I stopped dxm between interviles, after stopping for a month and a half than going back on it one day I experienced something horrible. At doses of just 390mg I have freak outs, extremely uncomfortable nausea, a hot dissociating feeling run through me, ex (Feel's like your a log and being thrown into a fire to be burnt one minut.)
I don't know why, all the sudden this has been happening.:(

I've heard of a 50 trip limit; But I'm wayyyy passed that number by now so why Is this happening to me? -Anyone that see's this and has something to share, please do! I'd appreciate it, I need to solve this puzzle.
=D If you are going to talk shit about me, at least get it right. You know shit about me, so don't talk your smack when you know fuck all about me. Never have and never will.

Fucking hypocrite.


/rant.:p
In case anyone wonders what I'm getting at, don't over think it. I'm drunk. I use this blog to say random things that pop into my head when I've had too much to drink. BL is one of the few places I feel free to ramble.
I want my daughter to be her own person.

I want her to find the things she wants.

I want her to be proud.

I want her to find her own truth.

I want her to always talk to me.

If I can achieve these things I will be happy.
well another day spent in the library. Not even a day, what am i saying got here at 3 it's only 4.13. That's what seems so crazy or ridiculousanbout the whole thing. If only I had just looked at the mail. Gone to the mailbox rather than justhide by pretending it was going to be ok.

I have received the foreclosure letter for the mortgage. I have a total of 4 collection letters regarding 3 credit cards and a telephone bill. I have regular monthly bills and don't have the money for them either. So I guess I am not that far from being homeless after all.

It feels strange ,I haven't really worked in so long now apart from soccer coaching which I did after i got out from the hospital. I love it but nothing doing for the winter and I just cant get enough work for it to be full time.

It is like the train track I was walking down had a train barreling down the track coming towards me blaring it's horn, headlights full on and I couldn't hear or see a fucking thing. Completely closed off to the noises of danger. And then wallop, just got smattered all over the railway.

But you don't die, you now get to see the train hurtling past you onwards like you weren't even there. Just a small blip as the train screams past you and you're left there going "How the fuck did I not see that" And hundreds of friends family passers by look at you and say "are you fucking serious?" Everyone was shouting and roaring at you to watch out. even people who didn't know you were trying to warn you. They saw the train from fucking miles away.

And slowly you sit there with your head all bloody in a thousand pieces, trying to put it back together again, picking little bits of the track.

The feeling of sadness is pretty bad right now. Sadness I feel for my family, the full impact of how it will affect them. The betrayal to my son, not putting him first.the betrayal to my wife, regardless of our differences and difficulties. Knowingly going and using and not stopping. I am not going to say I couldn't stop, I could have. I was able to stop when my money ran out. I showed up at the job too. I didn't go out and rob a bank or stick up someone because my addiction was TOO BIG. .to handle. I like Lacey says knew how and when I was going to go and get high. Yes there was times I lit up in the car driving (what an idiot,but that was when I was high or drunk etc.) There is a difference. But just like the start of this week and other weeks, I wanted to and If I had the money I would have more than likely gone and used. But I didn't have the money, well yes I did , I still do .I have a few hundred in the account. I could drain it right. But It's like I know there is no way I am not missing the train this time. So what;s the fucking point. I am done.
I guess that is why I hate AA. That I would walk into the rooms after my last Binge and If I was coming up on my year anniversary, they would be taking the credit for my sobriety and I would be thinking of myself as the lowest piece of human scum for what I have done to myself and my family.

But that is not the full truth. The full truth is that in these past 10- 11 months, I haven't used crack cocaine. I did drink at my Father's funeral this year in March for three days and then stopped. I haven't had a drink since or after it and don't feel like one. I feel like getting high because that crack high is like nothing else and It is seductive. But I am able to think it through, I am able to talk to good people I have met about it and I am, able to convince myself that It is not worth it and more than likely will make me feel worse also.

Now that can't happen in AA, because the book says there will come a time where no human power will be able to stop you.There is a mental blank spot and you will not be able to think the drink through.Pfffffffffft. Who am I talking to right now. I don't know.I am angry that maybe if I trusted in myself a little bit more I might be in a better position. I trusted many people far too much because I didn't and have never validated myself. The self esteem issue. The I am and always have been a fuck up and therefore you always will be.You will be nothing but that uselesss drunk who never took advantage of anything decent given him in his life. And that might be true ,all I did was hear the negative, and run with it.

Well I have a lot of cleaning up to do. I have a lot of lot of cleaning up to do, but it will get better, hey maybe it will get a lot worse , I don't know, but from this day on I will accept full responsibility for all my actions but I think more importantly all my thoughts. And I think today is going to be ok.

This feels very good to write. 4.51pm. I will take a quick look around BL and then do a little work on my self esteem. Yeah why not, I'm worth it.
My mom told me today that my dad is losing his memory in a rather severe way. He asked her today if I still lived in Colorado (I have been back in the Philly area for maybe two years now). My dad actually is the one who flew out to Colorado when I was so fucked up from shooting coke to help me get back to the east coast. We drove 32 hours straight from Colorado to here.

My parents live right down the street and I see them about once a week.

I am conflicted. I don't really like my dad too much. He never abused me or anything but I just think he's kind of an asshole. Now, I feel sorry for him and am thinking that maybe his actions in the past were the best he could do. I dunno, I gotta take a closer look at how this makes me feel and the part that I have played in his actions that I disapprove of.

More will be revealed, I suppose.
Who am I really?
I feel like there are two of me. A person who wants to be good and do good. an artist, intelligent person.
And then there is the drug addict, cheater,lair, manipulator.
Behind an innocent face that drags people towards me hides so much pain.
I fight inside all the time and sometimes the bad wins and sometimes the good wins.
It's so hard. People think it's a choice and often I feel like it's not. That I just do things w/o thinking, on an impulse.
Medications just kill my creativity and leave me in a zombie state.
I feel so many emotions all the time and have the need to put myself in danger to feel things.
I wish I was like other people, just going by their day, working. Not like me, trying to destroy myself. I feel like there is not much time left for me, that I have no more energy living the life that I do.
Many people on BL think that I actually defend Islam.

As a matter of fact, defending Islam is not my goad, rather it is attacking ignorance (on both sides) which fuels an on-going ideological war.

But a recent event reminded me of a disturbing fact that has me wondering why I even bother, as I feel I could care less what happens to the majority of both Muslims and Anti-Muslims today.

A couple of weeks ago, I received a phone call from a random guy saying he has my resume and wants to interview me for a teaching position in Dubai. I was a bit confused but decided what the hell, never waste a chance. I went to his school in Mississauga - 2 hours away - for said interview.

As I was about to go in, he came out, said hello, and announced that they're all going to pray before the interview. I didn't think much of it and just sat and waited. After the prayer, he called me in and introduced me to the Emirati who was recruiting. He was one of those religious men with a disgusting haywire beard... I'm sure you've seen examples of that in the news....

Anyway, the whole thing went swimmingly, aside from the fact that they were both dismayed that I changed my first name to Alex. At the end, the sheikh asked me if I knew so-and-so, and it turns out he'd been given my resume by a cousin in the UAE who worked in the Ministry of Education there. This meant that if things were to go the Middle-Eastern way, that I already got the job and the interview was just a formality.

That did not happen, and I never heard back from them.

After a week, we called said cousin and learnt that it was most likely my name. He said that some people would think that my changing my name was a change of religion. It all made sense now: the call to prayer as part of an interview, the beard, the dismay at name-change...

In a way, I see this as a blessing in disguise. Never would I ever want to work with such disgusting people.

And never would I ever want to come off as defending them.

From now on, I will limit discussion to Medieval Islam, which was FAR more progressive than the idiocy it had degenerated to today, and which I had forgotten due to not being part of the culture.

How disappointing and shameful.
Thought i would come on here and post. I am at the Library and going through all my mail from maybe the last 5 weeks maybe longer. It's been tough. Guess what i am now driving on a suspended License again because I have failed to keep up on my installment plan to the state. I have until 12/O3 to pay 91.00 so that is doable.

I have also after reading through some of the credit card statements gone into collection on about three cards. SO now I am in R9 Status on three cards, which apparently are on your credit reports for 7 years.

I have a 500.00 dollar fine from the fire dept. because we never removed a gas grill from the balcony.It's been sitting there for 2 bloody years, and we haven't had a word about it. Well at least i didn't think so. It says I can appeal it so I guess I will do that.

So apart from been in dept of 39,000 dollars there are fines coming out the wazoo. It gets really tough when you get in debt and you have no income. Wonder what brought that on...hmmmmmmmmm. I really feel for those that were trying to do their best and got into difficulty through just a job loss rather than the behavior I involved myself in. God how it is hurting my family now. But this is the first time I really have written about it on a daily basis. I mean I have done intensive outpatient, and Ialso found out how long I was on the pschye ward for Dec.4 - Dec 12th. of 2009. Wow I didn't know yesterday if it was 2 weeks or 2 months. Wasn't either. Sure felt longer. Well I owe them money too. Christ I am fucked every which way I look. But Sober and funny thing is all I wanted to do for the last week is go and cop. Today , no thanks, I am facing this and I am doing it. As difficult as it is, I am doing this and I am applying myself to it with all the courage I can muster.

Ok that's enough of a break. time to face the rest of this pile. Tomorrow I will start my tasks from today. This elephant is going to be eaten one mouthful at a time.
Need to get this down on paper. I have been craving a hit so badly for the last week. I think I know the reason. Low self esteem. That and having no money and all the other things I have done and not done to get me in this position.
I don't have much anger towards family that have affected me negatively right now but more feeling of self pity.

I want to be able to get the day to day things done that I need to- Face the music so to speak, get motivated and say fuck the world. I am still here and I am surviving and I will do more than just survive so guess what get outta my face. Deep sigh of relief again, I need to do what someone told me and that is just start something you have to do and say you are only going to do it for 10 minutes and see where it takes you. Hell I know where it took me when I say I'm only going to spend three hours and only x amount of money. Yeah right. And I know where it takes me when I say I am only going to log on for 10 minutes and then the morning is gone. So Maybe he is right, just start the shitty things for only 10 minutes and see what happens.

I have spent a lot of time reading BL over the last few days and I think it has helped me stay clean. Maybe not stay productive, it's like a new toy. But I am safe right now. I have been reading a lot of Laceyk's blogs and they have really hit home with me. The glamour of the roach infested hood motel and the Ho I'm falling in love with. The sickening feeling as I leave Dodge and take the long lonely highway home to suburbia. passing all the civilians on their way to work as I pray I don't see my neighbors as I get closer to home and I scream screams of hellish anguish as I arrive home, scrambling I go to the garage and I run to the cupboard on the wall and underneath the car rags is my bottle of vodka still with enough to get me down a little. I swallow the raw vodka from the neck guzzling suckling like a baby calf at his mother's tit. I smoke a smoke like there is only three seconds to get it finished. I am speeding like a mother fucker, hoping the faster I can get into bed the better things will be. And they will, I take off my smoke laden clothes and shove them under the bed, get on clean underwear and t-shirt and cover the blinds and get under the covers. Peace at last, then a turn then another turn , then stay still motionless, another turn. Then the pillow. What about a wank, yeah that will help. I cast my mind back to the motel, think of the best moment and away I go. Wait what if I stop and make a call. I can get more money, can't I No stop stop stop. I bust a nut thank god, now I have to sleep, can't smoke if I can't get my freak on. God I hate myself. what is wrong with me. Ah yes Suicide my friend, I can always think of you, but then I am selfish to my little un. Gotta get tough, gotta tough it out, I will and then it will be never again. Yeah Fuck it, I can get through this, what ever I lose I will beat it. I will not end up on the street. I will not end up on the street. So far so good.

Didn't think all that was going to come out but it did, Now it's 11.01 I am clean and it's time to go upstairs take my meds, Fluoxetine and Aplenzin and get busy facing life UGhhhhhhhhhh! but I can and I will do it. See you tomorrow whoever is listening..... I am.
Tried MDAI the other week and can't the stuff, lovely buzz, so warm and nice, this woof woof shit is the bomb!!!!!!
Tried k tonight for the first time in my life and was left pretty speechless at its effects on my mind.
I was aware of the doses and not to take too much of it and so took enough to get me in the light headed phase.
This was one thing I never knew about K......the phases you go through. I remember 3hrs ago that after 1 small line insufflated I sat on my bed just in a sense of harmony with the room. It was really really weird but a good weird.

Within the next 20mins i found myself doing up another line and after that it just went absolutely outrageous for about 50mins. I had been chatting to a mate on facebook and very quickly found myself unable to concentrate at the computer so I just lay down.
I started to drift off into another world where i felt like i was floating. Every 10 secs or so i found myself fighting the urges to regain normality in my mind but it was impossible. I assume i was in the k-hole.
I did feel very uncomfortable for half of it and had to remind myself there was nothing wrong.
Im still sitting here stunned by the lasting effects its had on me.
Right now i just feel light headed as if im just after waking from a general anaestetic.

To be honest im afraid to take the stuff again but at the same time i feel like its inevitably gonna happen. What a fukin crazy drug!!
I woke up today angry. Angry and ashamed.
I cried one of those cries with little tears but just a wail right from my Stomach.
I could only think of how I wish I didnt have this fucking body to carry around-I hate it!
Now I just feel tired. I ate my way through the last few days. Im so fucking bored and Cold and unfullfilled. D is annoying me, he's horny every fucking morning and I just dont want him to touch me. Im tired. Its a lovely day out and I have nowhere to go and nothing to do. The water tank is broken so the heat wont work and the shower water is cold. I hate the cold. If I had my car Id just drive somewhere.
I hate christmas. I hate all the fucking pemature Advertising on the radio and t.v for it.
I hate the way im going to have to pretend I enjoy shopping with my Mother during the holidays. I hate that she knows I do this and still carries on with the Facade. I hate that I have no family except for them. I hate that my scope is so small at the moment.
I hate that the last Interviewer kept smiling wryly at me all the while, knowing I wasnt going to get the job.
I hate that people treat me like im an idiot.
I blame the way I look for this.
Sometimes I want to be a two ton, colossal man who could annihalate the shit out of everyone he wants.
I hate that while watching the Police Crime re-enacment show on tv last night, when I saw women being attacked, I fantasised about
how I would just attack them back. I hate that I cant deal with my own vulnerability.
I hate the Physical and Social constraints of being a woman.
I hate that yesterday, 2 men brutally murdered their children and wive's and all the tv commentators were analysing were why the Government is bringing shame on the country.
I hate that the pressure people are under because of 'political gambling' is making people sick and killing them.
I hate the lie called 'Democracy'
I hate that every citizen is worshiping an ego ideal set down by 'Social Conditioning' by the Selfishly blind corrupters of life.
I hate that my circulation system is shit.
I hate that D doesnt express his emotions verbally.
I hate that he lies and manipulates.
I hate that prick that molested my mother.
I hate that people have kids and cant give them what they need.
I hate the cult of worshipping labels and things of high monetary worth.
I hate that I cant control my appetite.
I hate that I have so much flesh on my bones.
I hate the way it draws attention to my physical mass.
I hate that im not forming this blog entry into a more structured set of paragraphs.
I hate that we cant all read each others minds and hearts desire.
I hate that sometimes my idea of whats true for me usually ends up being right.
I know this is true, and it guides me but I dont want to know what I know.
I dont want to be delude either.
I dont know what i want.
I hate that!!!!!!!!!!!
If we were to break up for good, and then not see each other for the next 10 years, when I finally did see her again, I would be so beside myself with the mere sight of her that I would just melt.
<3
She's the one person in this world that makes me feel human. I don't think she knows just how much she mean.
The things I do do not affect you,
I keep "the bad stuff" away from my family.
You think these things distract me from what I need to do for the you.
You say I spend all my money poisoning myself.
What you fail to realize is that, while, yes, I do decided to "poison myself" I take half my paycheck and spend it on providing for a house that poisons me. You don't see it that way, but this house is what changed me.
The constant war being waged, the silence at the dinner table, the hostility... All of which are more poison to me than the things I do to myself.
I hope that some day soon you will realize that I do care about everyone in this family. Even when they decide to leave for months at a time.
I still care. But there's no love here. So I find love through other methods.
The drugs take their toll, yes.
But in the end, it is you that will be my downfall.
-Stephen
Sitting here browsing bluelight when I should be doing homework I am starting to question my motivation for college. I took adderal just to do this shit instead im listening to youtube and posting like theres no tommorow. I dunno Bill Withers is the shit though I think I cant write left handed may be my new favorite song. I know that teaching history is my calling but I dont think im gonna be able to pass my other classes to get there. It sucks because I truely have a gift for history. I gotta get it together at some point but I have so many issues that I dont even know where to start adressing them. I exhausted all the appointments I had with the school counselor which sucks because I dont feel like I got much accomplished. Its like I have all these things I need help with but once I get in the office I blank out cant ever think of what I really wanna say. I always just end up getting prescribed the drugs I want and not addressing the issues that make me an addict. Its a fucked up state of affairs.
I've just been prescribed tramadol to help ease the pain of fibromyalgia, with some degree of success. But have found that there is little, or no sound info about interaction's with coke and MDMA?! Pages and pages of where to buy it without prescription, it's doing my noodle in.
I've been off the naughties for quite some time and, was wondering if I'm gonna drop down dead if I just happen to have a little dable?
Could some one point me in the right direction? Need reliable scientific and personal advice.
He'd had that truck for 23 years. For the last 13 mechanics had told him it wasn't worth the money he was putting into it. They didn't understand that trucks true value. For the last 23 years that truck moved him, helped him, and came through for him.

The transmission had been changed 3 times. The engine replaced once and rebuilt twice. The body was mostly bondo with a layer of paint to hold it all together.

When the semi hit him, he lived, but she didn't. There was no putting her back together.

When he came home he looked into the eyes of the only thing that might make it longer.
Well two days ago while i was sitting in class stoned, i was considering the though of taking a break from pot.

I have been so lazy lately and i always need to sleep and i just have the feeling that i am very unhealthy and i really need to change my diet. And i never do my homework. I have no energy for anything at all. I don't buy lunch at school because i'm saving it for pot. and i smoke pretty much every day at school with my bestfriend. And this morning i woke up with a sore throat and feeling all achy and i have the chills.

So anyway today while we were walking to class i brought up the idea of having a break. We didn't have time to fully discuss he idea but all she said was "i'll take you up on that offer, but what are we going to do with all our free time?!"

And so what we need it motivation to give up pot for at least 3 months. So i was wondering if any of you could give me some words of motivation to help me out.

:)






My friend and i have decided to ditch this idea.
Well, just seeing the fruits of my efforts within my 'Relationship' are just a big heap of shit. He started driving his car into town after taking some kinda Sedatives(which only became apparent to me while we were driving) and refused to let me drive. I just ended up screaming at him to stop, which worked eventually. Then later on, I found out he had threatened to kill his Ex and this is part of the charge against him with the Cops and thats why he is on a Curfew*Sigh*. What the Fuck?!!!:(
Am not dealing with this shit anymore, have been dealing with his Drama for 5 fking years and am just tired of it...no matter what I say or do, he just wants to do what he wants to do and he doesnt take ANY responsibility for it unless he's on an emotional high.
This really wont sink in properly until a few days, it never does. My heart is broken from him, sometimes I dont want to be harsh cause Im afraid he's brain (injury frm a motorbike accident) has sumthin to do with it, but he knows what he's doin he is so goddamn Cocky and Manipulative(and even though I see through it, and tell him such, he just doesnt seem to harbour any respect for the Consequences his actions have on anyone who cares about him!)
I dont know how to manage without him, hes prob been the only person Ive been close to, for years.
I know you just have to roll on... I just feel so so old and fatigued from all this bullshit but it seems like its all I have ATM.
If I leave im worried things will get worse but I feel more like a parent to him(He's 47) in certain respects and thats making me miserable.
Im crazy about him but Im completly on my own with him.
one day shy of 60 days. i'm sof ucked up. and to make matters worse i'm gonna hve to 2live with this lie for atelast another month til i can get sttled bcuz if i dont my dad wount help me ant with an apartment thisis gonna weigh heavuyl on my consicense fuck fuck fucccccck. i made the decision i'm not regeretting it but just the fact that i did it i feel guilty.
the first time my heart stopped, the first time i woke up gasping for air, that weight on my chest, i fell violently in love. as soon as i felt it i couldnt get enough--never mind a razor blade, lettin the needle stroke my skin was always my kick. perverse self destruction. i loved bein sick. diseased affection. I lived for that shit, the erotic pleasure of dancin on that fine line. for the thrill of the wobble as you almost fall. savoring the seconds frozen in midair before you know you fine.

as i fell down into it i knew where i was goin, shit...it was never nothing else. just secret pleasure...the delicious feeling of the slow slide. diesel dreams turned my burned mattress into satin sheets, softest touch, fantasy love, how willing i was. the ultimate seduction. a deliberate sin. the spine tingling chill of forbidden things as i welcomed it in. and i woke up the next morning like a virgin who got her first good fuck. glowing, bursting with knowing something you dont, a new shake in my walk, new purpose in every step , my mind set. I couldnt wait to meet you again, my new best friend.

but a little danger never been enough, we need a pure blend of high octane self destruction, the sweetest secret. sometimes id let a little slip, a tiny hint. just a glimpse, but as a whole...Id always keep it. Just me and my high, just under the ribs, tucked right inside. Like two lovers in public, quick ass pinch and a wink. but just wait, just a bit, til we make it back home. im patiently waiting til i get you alone. i want you to own me, i want you to take me...break my bones, crush me, ravage me, rape me. every piece of me, love me , hate me, all of its yours. i want you, i need you, im your lover, im your whore. devastate me, break me, hit me harder, left for dead. smile on my face as the rush runs thru my head. i want it so hard, hot and violent, just the way you are. leave me wet, covered in sweat, leave me marks, leave me scars. you know i love it rough, til consciousness is almost gone. choke me out so tenderly, it always turned me on. feeling my lungs strugglin for breath under your touch. i love the way you give me just enough. let me linger on the threshold of life and death. aint satisfied til i barely got a heartbeat left. diacetyl dreams, pleasure at its most direct. when you finish leave me flushed and sweating, heart heavy in my chest. so deep, so asleep, under your caress.

aint nothin but self gratification, bliss in a bag. i wanted it deep, down inside me, i wanted it so bad. i wanted to drink it in, to suck it into my lungs, i couldnt get enough, i wanted it it all, to just let go and fall. into some kind of decadent lust, a sick fuck. wrong love.

the first time i decided to invite you deeper in, to take love in vein, i shivered with the knoweldge shit would never be the same. And the trust to let somebody slide the tip in so gently, and push it all down inside... the delicious surrender was already a high. i was so ready. ....counted backwards from ten. by seven, i was gone....by one, i wanted it again.and i let it hit me and my eyelids got heavy. "are you ok?" and all i could do was moan...unnhhhhhhhhhhhh....fuck...same animal sound as bustin a nut. frozen in ecstasy, paralyzed within the rush.

bundles and bricks becomes dirty talk, pack of fresh sets gets you off. needle caress takes the place of sex. Oh, fuck, i like it so raw. i cant get enough. dopes dirty little slut.

when i give you this shot...when i give you my words, when i give you my world, my life....i want you to feel it. I want it to be real. I want you to feel the sweat, the hot animal heat that radiates off my skin as i take it in. the lust in my heart as i feen for it, the furious, ferocious , basest need, and the unstoppable drive to satisfy. the ravenous fire burning me up inside. Pay attention, open yourself to my story. I give it to you , so you can know me too. I want you to have it, to let the hot blood course thru your veins and your head to drop, for you to know the secret rage that drives me, for you to feel the hate that i quench each time i slam down the plunger, to vibrate with the pure energy of absolule self annihilation , the fuel that fans the flames as it enters my veins. i just want you to know the reasons, i want you not to think, just to feel. to take it all in , my everything. the delicious thrill of the self destruct, the parasitic love, the violence of the rush. i give you this....but is it enough? do you hear me now, am i breaking thru, did i finally let you feel? can you understand? I need this to feel real.
I hate that drugs have turned my life to shit
I hate the fact that I LOVE TO GET HIGH
I hate that I smoke crack
I hate that I shoot pills..No I dont..I love them
And I hate that
I hate that my friends don't call me anymore
I hate how they say they understand..
When they have no fucking idea
I hate how i will NEVER be good enough
For anything
I hate the dealers that sell me drugs
I hate waiting for them
I hate that I have isolated myself
From anyone that actually ever gave a shit
I hate that I dont have the courage to kill myself and
I hate that everyday I want to die more and more
Once I said, Im a space traveler, back from another trip sleepy eyed and still pinned, back to the same place where the journey begins. If only you could know where I been.The only sign is the little red dots, a gift left from the tender kisses of stainless steel, the sharp caress of the needle. a faintly blooming garden of fading gray clouds floating over my forearm. the places i pushed it deep within. a graveyard of bruises, each purplish shadow marking the spot where a dream was sold , forgotten, and buried deep into my skin.

But that was then....

maybe Im on a break, call it retired. maybe its that now, it feels like im so much farther past. maybe i want to forget, could be just that.

maybe i pushed it so far back because to let the real feeling touch me again would bring me too alive. Maybe Im still screaming inside, maybe its just muffled. I think i took myself away so I dont have to suffer.

to still be in it, just a little bit...to dip my hand in that junkie life river and let it stream thru my fingertips, electric and raw, just to still feel some connection, one touch, just to play a day in the life--just once...its too much. too real. Too deep to let myself feel. lookin back at the life im just a kid way past bed time, listening under the door, catchin hints of music while the grownups outside tear up the floor. I aint quit it....but i sure as hell aint still wit it. I never liked the party to go on without me. but when you come back and try to start where you left off, you already too late to get caught up, shit done moved on, your place there is gone.

I just want it to be there, i just want to know its still waiting for me somewhere. cuz damn--to be a outsider at my own game?

Months roll by and soon ima share this life, the better part, with my unborn child...but where ima put that little piece of me that will always be wild? It aint never gonna leave. live forever with a trick up my sleeve?

I mighta came a long way, built over all the wreckage and started fresh, but the damage is permanently defined. a flock of shiny white lines... lies scattered and buried in the crook of the elbow, spread over the arm...these days, the fresh red rash of tracks is long gone, but the work of the needle will shine on, coldly burning the story into my skin for all time, as silent and knowing as an endless sky of stars.
So my car was stolen by the mechanic I took it to and apparently that's not a crime anymore.

Because a police officer would rather believe the lies of a mechanic rather than the corroborated truth I've told him twice over with a witness to verify and documentation to support, apparently extorting money for the safe return of someone's vehicle is totally legal and you can only spend more of your own money to sue them in civil court to get compensation for the vehicle.

This particular cop offered me the courtesy of sending a cop to the location to discuss the dispute and it would have been nice if he did that before when my car hadn't been sold yet, and the mechanic was trying to extort the money out of me. If he had offered to send an officer when I called him about the extortion the first time, I would have taken him up on it. He did no such thing. He told me it was a civil case and there was nothing any police officer could or would do for me. But NOW they're so willing to send an officer, now that my car is "gone." I at least got the Commonwealth Attorney's number, so maybe they can not sit on their thumbs and waste tax dollars while citizens are being hustled by fraudulent and criminally operating businesses.

If you live in Richmond, VA and need a mechanic, don't ever use STANDARD AUTO CENTER at any of their 3 locations, they'll arbitrarily change your quote AFTER they start working on your car so you'll be forced to leave your vehicle on their lot if it's non-operational or spend more money you don't have to tow it elsewhere while you raise the money. And in the meantime while your car is on their lot, regardless of whether you have an agreement otherwise, they will tow your car to an unknown location and never tell you how much you have to pay to get it back.
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