Raindogblue

The Price of Destruction

 

 

Fentanyl is selling for 25 cents...

 

 

 

Still Short

 

Days was at -6.Afternoons was at -6. Nights is at -5. 

You can't keep running skeleton crews and expect anything but the thinnest layer of priority policing. 

 

 

 

 

Long Sleeves

 

As the cold rains of Fall arrive, I have switched to long sleeve uniform shirts for the last time.

 

 

 

 

Talisman

 

 

 

 

 

Counting Down

 

Yesterday, I went to my retirement seminar. Tuesday, I have an appointment with my pension board. I am burning sick time. December 29th is my last day.

 Now, I need to find another job....

Beyond the Trees

 

 

 

 

Younger

 

Those ODing on fetty are getting younger. It's a cheap high. On Wednesday, a drug tourist was 18. He's lucky a regular person passed by in the alley. The addicts next to him would have done nothing. 

 

 

Ray Ray

 

Ray Ray, known by some as Record Ray, overdosed and died. He shifted from meth to fetty and was found dead decomposing in his apartment. 

 

 

 

 

The Blues

 

As of the 3rd, the Pond

has hit last year's OD level. 

79% involved fentanyl.

The rate was 65% last year.

There will only be more.

 

 

 

Hollow Talismans

 

She's a drug tourist. She's clean:

Dressed in heels and new clothes.

The leopard print Covid mask

around her neck is hollow talisman.

Sweat is beading on her forehead.

She is clammy and conscious.

Her pulse is meager.

Foil and straw at hand,

she's another fetty OD.

 8 Mil of Narcan up her nose

and 2 more in her arm,

she's barely breathing.

The medic crew places her

on the gurney before the flow

of urine from her fellow users steams

to the place where she almost died.