The story of fred just keeps getting sadder
His son's drug use was that ugly side matter
He wasn't a smoker or something like that
He was shooting the hard stuff through his new tats

Let's get him treatment, sure but he wasn't insured
Let's get him arrested and make jail the cure
Let's do this lets do that but we did nothing but wait
His parents never imagined this is the route it would take

So this loose end stayed loose and hastened fred's death
Now a week later his son overdosed and took his last breath
I can't even imagine what his poor mother is going through
Two funerals in two weeks, the grief my end up killing her too

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"One of the reasons why propaganda tries to get you to hate government is because it's the one existing institution in which people can participate to some extent and constrain tyrannical unaccountable power." Noam Chomsky.

The great Greek Tragedies have nothing on this.

Unfortunately, he could have closed the liquor store. Alive in a van down by the river is always better than six feet under.

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I was right.