Diary of Doses

Diary of Doses is a 66 poem collection on a running theme. I would like the reader to consume it as a whole. I am currently looking for a publisher. The work is complete. Nights of rewriting. Hours of knowing the language told the proper story. I present here the Preface and 4 of the poems in the collection.

Preface

Diary of Doses is a true portrait of the intoxicated. It is certainly an adult entertainment, not meant for children. It was not written as a condemnation or a self help book or even an expose directed at the prurient. It contains both the pathos and humor that resides in the world of inebriation. I have been a musician all my life and therefore, have been a witness to the behavior of the human being when under the influence of every substance presently known to man. Whatever reaction it elicits from the the reader, is shaped by the reader’s own experience.

I believe that the act of getting high, whether from alcohol, drugs either legal or illegal, is a chosen act of the individual. Some take intoxicants for the entertainment, some to alter their mental state, others to escape emotional tidal waves or just to appear socially adept. Not all people who do this are drunks or addicts. I cannot and will not denounce or encourage the act of getting high. I simply wish to shine light on the human ritual of altering the every day experience.

All of the poems in this book are based on reality. I am only a painter trying to capture a constantly changing landscape. Modern day man changes his perceptions with pills, potions, powders and plants procured from physicians, street corner vendors, bartenders and friends. Diary of Doses is their story.

I do believe that the drug war is wrong. It is unenforceable. I have never noticed a lack of desire or product since the war was begun. Laws made to stop what people do to themselves are wrong in the democratic sense and useless in stopping any so called problem. An individual has the right to do to themselves what they wish. Any law should only strive to cease unwarranted and detrimental actions that are inflicted from one person to another. Any use of public funds should be directed to those trapped in habitual activity that they wish to end.

So, dear reader, please read these poems without disdain or invective. I have had many of these characters pass through my life and they always remembered their please and thank yous.

RD

Sample Poems

• Aunt Mabe
• Possum
• Beautiful Disaster
• Rainbow Hitler