Addicted to Poetry 
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My favourite poet has been John Keats

His lyrical poems increase my heartbeats

It therefore came as a shock to hear

A new biography of his  is about to appear

Which says that he was addicted to opium 

A habit looked down upon with opprobrium

Writing verses for me is such a tedium

At  high school I didnt study in English medium

My only encounter with drugs has been with mescalin

which had opened for Huxley the doors of perception

it did nothing of the sort to me  perhaps an exception,

All that I saw was psychedelic colours in a glare

Of poetic inspiration, my brain remained bare

Remaining sober, I try to write nonsensical  rhymes

Is it senility or  perhaps it is a sign of the times