This is the Way: a memoir of poetry and heroin

This crush of bodies, the rush, the line, the techs with their black metal detector wands–I know I’m stuck in a mental hospital in Smyrna, but it feels like a cruel parody of going to the airport.

This crush of bodies, the rush, the line, the techs with their black metal detector wands–I know I’m stuck in a mental hospital in Smyrna, but it feels like a cruel parody of going to the airport.

“There’s a girl with long straight black hair and black clothes and little red lines all up and down her arms that I think are cute little smiley sticker-tattoos. I look harder. They are razor cuts, and not just a few, but a dense, red rose-thicket of wounds.”

“There’s a girl with long straight black hair and black clothes and little red lines all up and down her arms that I think are cute little smiley sticker-tattoos. I look harder. They are razor cuts, and not just a few, but a dense, red rose-thicket of wounds.”

Odysseus encounters the witch of the enchanted medroom and sights the demon of precipitated withdrawal just off shore. He considers the possibility of synthesizing Dilaudid from shampoo and decides to pay a visit to the damned in the underworld known as Cottage C.

Odysseus encounters the witch of the enchanted medroom and sights the demon of precipitated withdrawal just off shore. He considers the possibility of synthesizing Dilaudid from shampoo and decides to pay a visit to the damned in the underworld known as Cottage C.

In this episode, Chris J. gets his first dose of detox meds and dreams of the enchanted isle of Manhattan. He meets the quirky Dr. Laha and learns that looks can be deceiving.

In this episode, Chris J. gets his first dose of detox meds and dreams of the enchanted isle of Manhattan. He meets the quirky Dr. Laha and learns that looks can be deceiving.

Our hero is given a powerful sedative in the land of the Lotus Eaters and wakes up on a strange new island called Detox.