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.
