SICK JESUS


It was the night that they set the river on fire that Jesus Maria died and came back back to life. He had spent the better part  of that evening wandering around town, thinking dark thoughts, and wondering why the world had in turns been  so good and then so bad and then so good and bad again...




And so starts my novel SICK JESUS...

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BLASPHEMY AT ITS FINEST

The death, life and sickness of the heroin junkie Jesus Maria...



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On Millennium Eve Jesus Maria injects a hotshot of heroin and dies. After an unsuccessful attempt  to revive him, his body is stripped of everything of any use or value and dumped in the street. Three hours later Jesus comes around. He is confused and ill, suffering from Lazarus syndrome, after having touched death. Though unaware of who he is or what has happened, Jesus retains some kind of cognitive awareness of home and an instinct to get there. He staggers off, feet bleeding and bare-chested, through the last of the millennium crowds. The revellers he passes thinks he has had an ultra good night of it. They blow party hooters in his face and slap him on the back. When Jesus finally arrives home he climbs into bed  and falls unconscious. When he wakes up he is ill - in the initial throes of junk sickness and getting worse. The book relates seven days of  chronic heroin withdrawal in which a bed-ridden  Jesus, through a series of memories, dreams and hallucinations, relives his life and times...



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A new Memoires post to follow soon...

a Philosophy of Vengeance : the sadistic heart of the drug-care system

1 comments :

eyelick said...

Can't wait to see the analysis about drug treatment. There has to be a degree to which it is worse in the UK vs the US due to it not so much being a for-profit system. We have clinics as well, but they all require payment - unless a person is on whichever state version of government-provided health insurance, in which case the clinic still gets money from the insurance. Unless someone is in a city or state where there aren't many clinics, dosing starts the same day. People tend not to be thrown off of the clinic unless they aren't attending for multiple days in a row. Testing dirty doesn't bring your dose down, it just becomes more inconvenient having to go in more often (clean tests provide "privileges" where you don't have to go in as often and can instead get doses to take home - it's probably the same there - but dirty tests here just take those privileges away.) And then there are the vast array of residential rehabs here, where the more money you put in, the more you get to be babied. In the US it is a business, just like everything else. Lucky enough so far not to have to contribute to that business.