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Array ( [sid] => 160568 [catid] => 1 [aid] => mick [title] => My brain's off-switch [time] => 2010-06-12 14:15:22 [hometext] => [bodytext] => Only the deafening force of alcohol
Erases questions from my mind
The cold drink on the rocks
Is nothing but my brain's off-switch
And when the last drop is gulped in
I leave the world behind
And what I cursed so brief before
Is what me keeps bewitched

Whether I just do it to forget the time
Or whether it's already addiction
I can not see the crossover
And even less why I should care
Why sould I live the real thing
When I prefer the fiction
When soberness captures me here
And this can get me anywhere

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My brain's off-switch

Contributed by essential on Saturday, 12th June 2010 @ 02:15:22 PM in AEST
Topic: oops

Only the deafening force of alcohol
Erases questions from my mind
The cold drink on the rocks
Is nothing but my brain's off-switch
And when the last drop is gulped in
I leave the world behind
And what I cursed so brief before
Is what me keeps bewitched

Whether I just do it to forget the time
Or whether it's already addiction
I can not see the crossover
And even less why I should care
Why sould I live the real thing
When I prefer the fiction
When soberness captures me here
And this can get me anywhere

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Only 1 - 4 poems per author per 24 hours are permitted depending on membership level and interactivity.

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Re: My brain's off-switch (User Rating: 1 )
by iodinelove on Sunday, 13th June 2010 @ 11:31:47 PM AEST
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if you don't know the difference, it's addiction

Re: My brain's off-switch (User Rating: 1 )
by patrick247 on Sunday, 17th October 2010 @ 07:24:15 AM AEST
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THIS POEM MAKES A LOT OF SENSE TO ME AS I FIND MYSELF SWITCHING OFF MORE AND MORE,
IM SURE IM GONNA SWITCH OFF FOR GOOD SOON
AND NOT BE ABLE TO SWITCH BACK ON....
I BETTER KEEP MY SELF IN THE STANDBY MODE WITH SOME INSTRUCTIONS TO SWITCH ME BACK ON CLOSE BY, ....TATTOOD ON MY HEAD,
COS I MIGHT NOT ACTUALLY BE DEAD

Re: My brain's off-switch (User Rating: 1 )
by Puppy_dog_eyes on Friday, 5th November 2010 @ 03:49:08 PM AEST
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Certainly is thought provoking.
The way we find our own escape sometimes is hard to explain, we all have our own ways.

Steve

Re: My brain's off-switch (User Rating: 1 )
by kcrysten on Tuesday, 8th November 2011 @ 02:21:03 PM AEST
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I can truly relate. I am not addicted, but I definitly use alcohol on my weekends to let myself go and not feel the full impact of life and it's pain

Re: My brain's off-switch (User Rating: 1 )
by lisasolorio1 on Sunday, 12th February 2012 @ 12:50:22 PM AEST
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Its nice to be able to exscape all the bad stuff that goes on in life!

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