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UNDERGROUND VOICES: POETRY - 03/2006
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TONY O'NEILL Iris Circle, Again I awoke from a nightmare of my own devising and came back into the one we shared: it was 4 am and she was next to me overdosing on cocaine she shimmied and shook, naked and smeared brown from the previous night’s frenzied, compulsive injecting eyes rolled back into her head arms twisting at arcane spastic angles a sad bruised 98 pound St. Vitus amidst the screaming and the phone calls and the ambulance and the restraints she looked at me and said “Why? “Why did you let me wake up?” one sound above the screams and the crying and the sirens still reverberates in my head the sound of the paramedics heavy, solid boots treading on, and crunching underfoot the remnants of a life imploded Tony O'Neill is a writer based in New York City. His debut novel, "Digging The Vein" is due to be published in the US and Canada Feb 2006. It is an account of the years he spent as a heroin addict in Los Angeles and London. His work has been featured in Laura Hirds Showcase, 3am Magazine, Savage Kick #2, Scarecrow, Zygote in my Coffee, Spent Meat (upcoming) and a number of other places. His website is www.tonyoneill.net |
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