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In spite of my physician,
Who in con­stant admonition,
Says my heart will palpiltate
And my blood coagulate
In a dirge of caffien­at­ed demolition;

Make my hands to vacillate,
My car­nate tem­ple desecrate,
Be my ter­mi­nal undoing,
Each fell sip my ruin brewing,
To addle, mud­dle, and intoxicate.

Fuck, I say sincerely,
I live thus cavalierly,
If my organs burst asunder,
Then chas­tise me, Quack, and thunder,
It was meet and just to urge you so severely!

But until my urn is packed,
In a colum­bary stacked,
Until it is too late to bear regret,
O’er her caus­tic coquetry I will not fret,
And dal­ly on, her bit­ter vices to extract.

Glo­ry, laud, her rich extraction
Ripe with chem­i­cal reaction,
Vis­cous jet of ink descending,
Sweet insom­no­len­cy vending,
An uncouth and irre­sistable attraction.

If life afford­ed slumber,
Every moment not encumber
With a pace that ever quickens,
And a lethar­gy that thickens,
My limbs like laz­ing lumber.

If the rush­ing, blur­ring vision,
An obscene cos­mic misprision,
Might ebb away, stand still,
Grant me calm amidst the shrill,
I’d not need her keen and puis­sant provision.

Sul­try siren, how you rouse me,
Wax­en and acer­bic ebon sea!
So beset­ting­ly I lust
For each neu­ron-spark­ing thrust,
Your astrin­gent­ly licen­tious guarantee.