All Of My Drug Dealers Are In Prison By Ian Copestick

All of my drug dealers are in prison

I don't know what I'm going to do

It's a good job that I haven't got a bad habit

Or I'd be in bed with "the flu "

I don't know how I'm going to cope

I don't know where I'm​ going to go

After 25 years somebody has

Finally stopped the flow

I guess that I will have to become straight

Although it will be hard

After 25 years of heroin

I guess you could say that I am scarred

About Ian Copestick: 

I am 45 years old and live in Stoke On Trent, England.

I'm currently unemployed and surviving on £70 per week. This means that my lifestyle isn't particularly healthy, but it gives me plenty of time to think, read and write.

I started writing poetry 15 years ago after discovering Bukowski and being hit by the revelation that working class people CAN be poets.

This had literally never occurred to me before.

I also write prose and maybe some of it will appear in Dope ...