legal highs

when peo­ple find a way
to de­liv­er them­selves from this
place
for even one mo­ment
with chem­i­cals they de­vel­op
for that very pur­pose,
they will do so,
un­re­pen­tant­ly,
re­gard­less of the penal­ties,
the pros­e­cu­tion & the
im­pris­on­ment,
im­posed on them by the
gov­ern­ments
who have yet to find a way to
prof­it from their man­u­fac­ture,
so re­gard­less of the highs made
il­le­gal,
wher­ev­er they are traf­ficked
so too are the “le­gal highs” &
the hi­lar­i­ty of the sell­ing
neath’ the trans­par­ent guise of
bath prod­ucts & home im­prove­ment
mea­sures, from smelling salts to
in­cense,
makes the whole event more
in­ter­est­ing
for the watch­er—
be­cause where one is stopped
an­oth­er springs up &
where that one is elim­i­nat­ed,
three more pop up &
the side-ef­fects do not mat­ter,
the neu­ro­tox­i­c­i­ty does not mat­ter,
in fact, no pathol­o­gy de­ter­mined
by the doc­tors who don’t yet know
how to har­ness the prop­er­ties
of all the fan­tas­tic in­ven­tions
of the “mad” ones out there,
will pre­vent the ex­per­i­men­ta­tion &
the re­lease
which comes with suc­cess­ful­ly
find­ing ways out of this cesspool—
so par­ty on, mr./ms. po­lice­man,
par­ty on, mr./ms. pros­e­cu­tor,
par­ty on, mr./ms. judge &
par­ty hardy, mr./ms.
rep­re­sen­ta­tive of the
state,
be­cause pro­hi­bi­tion did won­ders for
al­co­hol, didn’t it?—
keep on ap­ply­ing the same tac­tics
to ev­ery­thing un­der the sun &
watch your kid­dies go­ing apeshit
get­ting fucked & wrecked for
fun.