Deadly Friends
Hello High School
Goodbye Junior High
New Year New me
Do I plan on going
to college? Yes
Hello Mary J
Nice to meet you
I’m already
making friends
Will you be my
new best friend?
Mary J Mary J
My heart rate
goes double
When I’m with you
Fill my lungs
with your corruption
I can’t breath
without you
Benign turn malignant
With you, in my throat
I may look tired
But my brain is like
Clogged
I can’t tell what’s
real and what’s not
This is going to be
The best 4 years
Of my life.
Pass the exam
Go to Mary J
Fail an exam
Go to Mary J
Instead of Homework
Go to Mary J
Before and after
Breakfast, lunch,
And dinner
Go to Mary J
We’ve been through
The rough times
The happy times
I don’t think
I have a
problem
Hello High school
Goodbye Junior High
New year New me
Do I plan on going
to college? Yes
Booze is in
Me and booze met
Over the summer
Oh Booze
With you my
Heart weakens
With so much love
It’s sometimes hard
to breathe with
you around
that you spew
Everything dizzy
With you here
Pass the exam
Go to Booze
Fail an exam
Go to Booze
Instead of Homework
Go to Booze
Before and after
Breakfast, lunch,
And dinner
Go to Booze
We’ve been through
The rough times
The happy times
And the just
Because times
through the past
two years
what do you mean
I don’t have
Enough credits
to pass?
I don’t think
I have a
problem
Hello high school
Goodbye Mary J
Goodbye Booze
Goodbye old me
New year new me
I plan on
graduating on time
and for a college
to accept me.
I can’t believe
I was blinded
for all these years.
While focused
Mary J calls
No Mary J
Im busy
‘Man you not
The same no
More I miss
The old you”
Hey don’t Mary
Don’t tempt me
While focused
Booze calls
No Booze I
Got work
To do
“come on
Have a little
Fun just one..”
NO!
“wow you really
have changed”
I’ve finally
Finished high school
Good bye high school
Hello college life
Thinking I’ll
be alright
Old friends keep
Showing their
Faces everywhere
Can I really
Keep this
Up and
Stay focused?
Nope I can’t
And since i
Can’t I’ve
Made a friend
I can’t get rid
Of, …Cancer.
Now I have
A lump in
My throat
And it feels
Like it’s
Laughing at me
“Do you really
Think you’ll
Live long enough
To even finish
college” No.
“What’s the point,
You only have
A few months
To live anyways”
You’re right
So I turn to
A new friend
Named Z-Bar.
Mary J, Booze,
And Z-Bar
Never had
all of them
in the same
room at the
same time.
This maybe
There first
and last time
Together with me
If I make it.
Hopefully I
Don’t, because
I don’t want to.
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