“Defiant Bow 2” © Edward Michael Supranowicz

 

Neck Needle

A penny for my thoughts
Screwed everyday I need my meds
Green blood is drained red
From a curse I’ll soon be dead
I don’t want to know how I’m alive
Not just hurts more than deaths
One more turn
Then I’m done with this
I feel my body burn
Tighter than a drum
Muddy booze lucky cigarettes
Dirty ass handkerchief
Got a needle in my neck
The poison travels thru veins
Till my brains makes me fall asleep

 

Issac Cordova has had poetry published in Bristol Noir and The Opiate.

Edward Michael Supranowicz is the grandson of Irish and Russian/Ukrainian immigrants. He grew up on a small farm in Appalachia. He has a grad background in painting and printmaking. Some of his artwork has recently or will soon appear in Fish Food, Streetlight, Another Chicago Magazine, The Door Is A Jar, The Phoenix, and The Harvard Advocate. Edward is also a published poet who has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize multiple times.