HEROIN IS

Zoë Lund
(1986)

The other drugs are drugs of illusion. Heroin is the drug of disillusion.

Thus, on heroin, all acts are acts of will and are pure.

All other drugs aid your will or supplant it. Heroin leaves you to your own will -- or lack of it. Thus, the abject junkie is the inevitable antipode of the heroin saint. But there are no "energetic" gliders. That is the stuff of other stuff.

"High" on heroin, you can cry. You can feel loneliness and fear. Above all, you can feel the anguish that is "transformed into history." All other drugs either achieve or are taken in an attempt to achieve the escape from that anguish.

One can even say that heroin renders the anguish all the starker.

"I don't believe in faith." A heroin statement.

Heroin is the bedrock of human experience. When you go down, you can only rise on your own fuel.

Heroin is the stripper. All other drugs give you blinders of one form or another.

Heroin is the key to the absurd. Any step you take is solo and you know you tread on dung. But it is your own step and your own pain and if you move at all, you move toward pain and toward the ultimately generous gratuitous act.

Curious that heroin is the drug of "The Basin."