If you lived through the ’80s anywhere near an urban core, you’d have to be stone-cold stupid not to notice them. I’ve written about murderous crack addicts, about dope fiends, the true zombies of the streets because. It never occurred to me that it would be a way to live, but it’s always fascinated me, how folks fall into it, plunge headlong into the depths of human tragedy through the pursuit of the pipe. ![]() I assumed the pusherman would just as soon poison me as get me high. ![]() No, G, I’ve never smoked cocaine, never hit the pipe, didn’t tempt me in the least, because I had been inoculated against it with a healthy dose of junior high school ass-kicking. So, Jervey, how about it? Did you ever partake? Introduction by gary phillips & jervey tervalon John Watson to his friend Sherlock Holmes in Sign of the Fourby Arthur Conan Doyle Why should you, for a mere passing pleasure, risk the loss of thosegreat powers with which you have been endowed? Remember that I speaknot only as one comrade to another but as a medical man to one for whoseconstitution he is to some extent answerable. Surely the game is hardly worth thecandle. You know, too,what a black reaction comes upon you. Johnny Cashīut consider!…Count the cost! Your brain may, as you say, be roused andexcited, but it is a pathological and morbid process which involves increasedtissue-change and may at least leave a permanent weakness. 44 beneath my head Got up next mornin’ and I grabbed that gun Took a shot of cocaine and away I run. I went right home and I went to bed I stuck that lovin’.
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