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Titled ROSE MARIE, this brief addressee-poem dismisses drugs less as scandal than as normalization, objecting to the way they are treated like water.

The force of the page comes from its bluntness. Placed under a name, it reads as a note to a specific person more than a generic moral lecture about drugs. The capitalized THERE and WATER make the accusation feel pointed and local, as if the speaker is telling Rose Marie where and why the saturation has become ordinary.

A blunt handwritten note under the underlined name 'ROSE / MARIE'. Its force is the disavowal followed by a complaint about saturation, not sin: 'I don't give shit / About Drugs, / But THERE, / They TREAT it / Like WATER'. The capitalized 'THERE' and 'WATER' make the accusation pointed and local, a private note about where the normalization has become ordinary rather than a public sermon.