Thursday, January 1, 2004

Cocaine Lil And Morphine Sue Comments

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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.
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Wystan Hugh Auden
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Jennifer Reavis 27 April 2006

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.

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Stuart Mason 03 January 2006

Genius.

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Wystan Hugh Auden

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