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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.

Titled ROSE MARIE and pitched at a specific person. The complaint isn't about drugs as evil but about drugs as ordinary, treated like water. The address makes it a private accusation rather than a public sermon.