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He reaches these highs

Where alcohol and drugs cannot carry him

Suddenly, he is smiling
Through the pain
Almost extinguished

Suddenly risen from dust
Without dust to his clothes
A new man

All the while

Forgetting the old

As if from some parallel universe
That man did exist

Now he does not
You, say

Not realizing I see that old essence steam from his clothes
That he washed in hot water to make...new this man he has become.

This man he must become
To keep living.

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