Things To Do On Speed

mind clicks into gear & fingers clatter over the keyboard as intricate insights stream out of your head; this goes on for ten hours: then, take a break: clean all desk drawers, arrange all pens & pencils in precise parallel patterns; stack all books with exactitude in one pile to coincide perfectly with the right angle of the desk's corner. Whistle thru ten more hours of arcane insights: drink a quart of ice-cold pepsi: clean the ice-box: pass out for ten solid hours interesting dreams. 2. Finish papers, wax floors, lose weight, write songs, sing songs, have conference, sculpt, wake up & think more clearly. Clear up asthma. treat your obesity, avoid mild depression, decongest, cure your narcolepsy, treat your hyper-kinetic brain-damaged children. Open the Pandora's Box of amphetamine abuse. 3. Stretch the emotional sine curve; follow euphoric peaks with descents into troughs that are unbearable wells of despair & depression. Become a ravaged scarecrow. Cock your emaciated body in twisted postures scratch your torn & pock-marked skin, keep talking, endlessly. 4. Jump off a roof on the lower East Side or Write a 453 page unintelligible book 5. Dismantle 12 radios string beads interminably empty your purse sit curled in a chair & draw intricate designs in the corner of an envelope 6. 'I felt it rush almost instantly into my head like a short circuit. My body began to pulsate, & grew tiny antennae all quivering in anticipation. I began to receive telepathic communication from the people around me. I felt elated.' 7. get pissed off. Feel your tongue begin to shred, lips to crack, the inside of the mouth become eaten out. Itch all over. See your fingernails flake off, hair & teeth fall out. Buy a Rolls Royce Become chief of the Mafia Consider anti-matter. 8. Notice that tiny bugs are crawling all over your whole body around, between and over your many new pimples. Cut away pieces of bad flesh. Discuss mother's promiscuity Sense the presence of danger at the movies Reveal get tough turn queer 9. In the Winter, switch to heroin, so you won't catch pneumonia. In the Spring, go back to speed.