Post by Deleted on Mar 21, 2017 0:40:48 GMT -5
Hot off the presses, here's a new one about the epidemic of opioid abuse in West Virginia. A small town in Wyoming County, Oceana, has even been nicknamed "Oxyana" as a result.
The Oxyana Blues
© 2017 by David Hanners
He was by a silver maple behind the motel
How long he'd been there no one could not really tell
Cops asked around to find what they already knew
Just another victim of the Oxyana blues
The Logan's been around since the dawn of time
Digging coal's hard labor even in your prime
The docs give you pills, wash 'em down with booze
You're back to work tomorrow with the Oxyana blues
Blues twist and bend like the Cook Parkway
Two-lane blacktop will not take you away
Roadside's filled with junkies and hookers paying dues
Trying to hitch a ride on the Oxyana blues
Some need the pills to work with their pain
Some crave them 'cause each sad day's the same
When you're too tired to think and just want to be amused
Only prescription is the Oxyana blues
Clinics hand out pills, it's all cash and go
Two-hundred bucks a week for 90 pills or so
Two-hundred bucks and everything to lose
But we feel like we're winning on the Oxyana blues
(chorus)
