Did you ever hear about Cocaine Lil? <br />She lived in Cocaine town on Cocaine hill, <br />She had a cocaine dog and a cocaine cat, <br />They fought all night with a cocaine rat. <br /> <br />She had cocaine hair on her cocaine head. <br />She had a cocaine dress that was poppy red: <br />She wore a snowbird hat and sleigh-riding clothes, <br />On her coat she wore a crimson, cocaine rose. <br /> <br />Big gold chariots on the Milky Way, <br />Snakes and elephants silver and gray. <br />Oh the cocaine blues they make me sad, <br />Oh the cocaine blues make me feel bad. <br /> <br />Lil went to a snow party one cold night, <br />And the way she sniffed was sure a fright. <br />There was Hophead Mag with Dopey Slim, <br />Kankakee Liz and Yen Shee Jim. <br /> <br />There was Morphine Sue and the Poppy Face Kid, <br />Climbed up snow ladders and down they skid; <br />There was the Stepladder Kit, a good six feet, <br />And the Sleigh-riding Sister who were hard to beat. <br /> <br />Along in the morning about half past three <br />They were all lit up like a Christmas tree; <br />Lil got home and started for bed, <br />Took another sniff and it knocked her dead. <br /> <br />They laid her out in her cocaine clothes: <br />She wore a snowbird hat with a crimson rose; <br />On her headstone you’ll find this refrain: <br />She died as she lived, sniffing cocaine<br /><br />WH Auden<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/cocaine-lil-and-morphine-sue/
