BY: Marc McMahon

I know what it feels like to be alive

To acquire its pallet

Course faded steel

Scraping teeth

Daddy why, but

Mommy screamed

No

The taste of lead

As daddy loves

About The Author: Marc is a 50-year-old Author, Speaker, and Soldier in a war to loosen the grasp that Substance Abuse has on our society. He is a Father, Son, and friend to all those seeking refuge from this incorrigible disease. Marc resides in the beautiful Pacific Northwest where he enjoys, writing, hiking, and kicking the disease of addiction in the teeth, every chance he gets. As Marc always likes to say, “be blessed, my friends!”

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