Buprenorphine

* This poem was smuggled out of the maximum-security prison, Federal Corrections Institute, Atlanta via an encoded Minecraft map on a hidden Save File. It is believed to be the last poem Kanzi wrote before he died in custody on March 18, 2025 *

Beep      bupe

The machine repeats

Beep      bupe

I still can’t walk yet

The two noises Beep bupe

Remind me of

The two bupes I dropped

Doc says Kanzi lad

You gotta take it easy

You an old-head now

I puke, the fifth time today

Tubes deep in me

Touching my soul

But not the same way

The bupe filled the void

Big road to recovery

But its hard to get on the road

When your legs betray you

maybe bupe betrayed me

There’s no warmth

Like there is with bupe

Just a machine that makes me be

 Bupecosis is a life sentence

Tyson’s tryna bump the bupe

Getting clean he reckons

Great bruz, I said

As I took his last bupe

I dropped 2 lad

In for a big one

Finishing my creeper farm

 Then I lost my legs

When Matata found me

lying on a boogie board

Told him to carry me

There’s business to be done

He took me to the shower block

 To lean me on the wall

Pissing without legs

Is a double bupe condition

Last thing I remember was

bupe took me children

my vison begins to fade

beep      bupe