Symptoms by Jasen Sousa

Symptoms

I search for words

like my man searches for

his next hit.  I search 

for pleasure, for freedom

in the moment, just like my man.

I know the pleasure will

not last, but I still

need it, just like my man.

We are the same.

We come from the same

street, from the same city.

The only difference is that he has caught

the disease.  The highly contagious disease

that gets spread through crews.

He is sick, he suffers, 

and has no one

to take care of him, because unlike

other diseases, this disease makes 

you steal from those who take care

of you, 

not because you want to,

but because you have to.

First Published

in

Somewhere Lost

Copyright © 2011 by Jasen Sousa

Copyright © All Rights Reserved by J-Rock Publishing

Library of Congress

Cataloging in Publication Data

ISBN  978-0-9714926-7-7