Shut Down by Ian Lewis Copestick

Sometimes life, and
the people you have
to share it with just
bring you down so
much that the only
thing that you can
do in psychic self
defence is neck
back a bottle of
whisky. Or take any
drug that you can
lay your hands on.
I know that these
things are stupid,
and won't help you
at all, but every now
and then you just
get so low that you
need to shut your
brain down for an
hour or two.
I can feel a shut down
coming on.

Ian Lewis Copestick is a 46 year old writer (I prefer that term to poet ) from Stoke on Trent, England. I spend most of my life sitting,  thinking then sometimes writing. I have been published in Anti Heroin Chic, the Dope Fiend Daily, Outlaw Poetry, Synchronized Chaos, the Rye Whiskey Review, Medusa's Kitchen and Horror Sleaze Trash.