SUBOXONE BLUES

An aerial view of Ed Hughes' big house high on a hill

“
It takes a whole lot of Suboxone

To detox a toxic oxen.”

                          Bob Dylan

Ed Hughes profitably arouses
Subsidized “clients” in halfway houses

Suboxoned by counseling louses

Who then put the bite on House mouses.

Hughes lives not in a humble abode

But in a big house located on high

Where the floods never flowed,

Up close to the Guy-in-the-Sky.

Hughes lives not in a humble abode

But in a big house located on high,

Which ain't exactly Tobacco Road,
Way above addicted small fry.

Hughes lives not in a humble abode

But in a big house located on high

Far from houses that don’t meet code

Where addicts overdose and die.

Hughes lives not in a humble abode

But in a big house located on high

Where the grass is always mowed

And crack houses are a far cry.

Hughes lives not in a humble abode

But in a big house located on high

Where his garden’s always hoed

By the best tools money can buy. 

Hughes lives not in a humble abode

But in a big house located on high

Where taxpayers always get snowed

And his PR men always lie. 

                           Robert Forrey, 2014

House mouse coronoritus terryonus