Poetry: Purple Pain

By Amir Said On Jul 14, 2020 0

Purple Pain

People will hate me
for saying Prince died
from some knock-off Vicodin
laced with fentanyl.
But fuck them anyway;
I don’t deal in fantasy.
He was broken just like
all of us; and he had a remedy.
You can count me among those
who danced to his music,
got lucky to his melodies.
But this won’t change
his final stroke
or give me any envy.

Amir Said

Amir Said (warmly known as Said), is the founder and editor-in-chief of Best Damn Writing. A writer, publisher, and musician from New York (now living in Paris, France), Said is also the co-founder of the publishing company Superchamp Books and the founder of the music sites BeatTips and The Art of Sampling. He is an author with a number of books to his credit, including ‘The Art of Sampling,’ ‘The BeatTips Manual,’ ‘Ghetto Brother,’ and ‘The Truth About New York.’

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