Entries tagged as horror

Confessional,freeverse,stream-of-consciousness poem(containing quite a few recognisable quotes),in reality more about the circumstances of its composition than anything else. Written in a tiny room in the New Norfolk Hotel in the townlet of that name about thirty miles from Hobart,Tasmania. I spent four months in this hotel going cold turkey after eighteen months of over-indulgence while living at a cheap hotel in central Hobart - over-indulgence in bad company,alcohol,cigars,pipe tobacco, cigarettes,marijuana and opium (smoked as raw paste on one occasion). This was the first serious poem I'd written since August,1998,a six-year gap during which I travelled widely,both geographically and experientially. As a positive footnote,since 2004 I have been only a light,occasional smoker of Cuban cigars or pipe tobaccco and a light-to-moderate,occasional drinker of Guinness,red wine or(if I'm really lucky!)Jameson's 'Crested Ten' whiskey.