They flutter irresistibly toward
the lethal flame that will destroy
them, impervious to the knowledge
that they thus forsake the very
existence that others struggle to
survive overtaken by conflict and
deadly persecution, homelessness
and famine. While there is never
a shortage of dealers selling drugs
or the chemicals to produce them
an equal number of concerned
humanitarians invest in efforts to
save those lives through harm
reduction clinics and lobbying
governments to decriminalize
simple possession. All of which
feed directly toward increased
opportunities and freedom to seek
the deadly substances. Unstoppable
suicides not by design but by default
take steeper numbers of lives addicted
not to living but to dying in a frenzy
of search-and-rescue; the searches
increasingly successful, the rescues
falling by the wayside of impulsion.
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