how t f did you manage to squeeze almost all the prompts in coherently omg you are brill

IV sounds like margaret; and I like I the most no particular reason why, chasing the dragon also sounds really colloquial for doing some drug of sorts

thanks, but a lot of it was forced, especially I. chase the dragon’s HK slang for inhaling drugs like cocaine and whatnot

IV sounds like Margaret mostly because it’s kind of instructional, like ‘do this to obtain this result’ lol

well I read it as a depressed jilted fellow drugging himself to get away from it all, so it did fit nicely for me

this guy’s sort of unable to accept the truth, i.e. in I and IV he’s still instructing the reader to do what presumably he has been doing, yet he does it as a result of being unable to cope, and being the weaker, not the stronger.

Not necessarily jilted, I saw II , VI and VII to be ambiguous, i.e. it’s not necessarily an old lover, perhaps a friend or even a stranger, a fellow druggie. With V it becomes as though this guy’s trying to get more people to embrace his lifestyle, as though it’s a symbol of strength, although he seems weak and unable to cope with whatever he’s running from, only to receive a sudden moment of clarity in VII and perhaps VIII when he recognizes how he’s been leading his life, and his own weakness.

ah yes it could be anyone. or anything even considering how strung up and high he is.

I like your narrative for this.

Whoa! Just… Whoa. XD

thanks everyone, I guess

thanks everyone, I guess

Great poem.

once again, thank y’all kindly

Beautiful. You evoke the experience sincerely and with grace.

Whoa, this is amazing! I’m in love with this piece! This is so beautiful and a little sad too. Well done. :)

Thanks again, everyone. Hope to write more poems of such caliber, if possible…..

I love how the fact that the character is high contributes to the tone at the end… and it’s not too literal. I don’t know, I just really liked it!