Brain Pain Poem by Charles Bernabi

I have a pain in my brain
That is quite a drain.
I can't explain this terrible migraine
The throbbing is insane.

All through the night in bane
Consigned to the pure rain.
Of which contained codeine and cocaine
It eased my suffering, cerebral vein.

From it I can't abstain
Nor should anyone try restrain.
I'm in a state of disdain
Underserving in the main.

My life is a damning strain
Its high I cannot attain.
The headaches are most arcane
Nobody gets why I complain.

And I do it bitterly in vain
I just cannot refrain.
The level of pain is hard to maintain
I hope it will not remain.

But life in the fast lane
I never did entertain.
Perhaps because getting on the gravy train
Felt like dragging a ball and chain.

I guess I had it plain
And that's all I wanted to obtain.
But I'd inhaled ethane
Mixed with a gallon of propane.

That and abusing mary jane
Is why my brain's in pain.
If only life were full of champagne
So I could toast living again.