Absinthe

About the Book

Review from SCVIRTES:
Follow the tormented wishes and dreams of absinthe, an irresistible brew with deadly side-effects. Poems and stories from the edge ... phantoms and furies to tingle your mind. What would it be like, yearning for something as it ruins your soul? Or reaching out for truths knowing they were never real? Read this book before bedtime, and see what kind of voyages it takes you on.

Poem and Preface excerpt in "Absinthe" published in 2002 by: Xlibris Press. Copyright A. Nelson
Preface

Each one of us are murders of free will. Each one of us are rapists of time. We each seek to forge a memory- a lasting impression, upon the fabric of the void. I find solace in my memories. Of times long past and times to be made in the future that I remember yet I do not forget. It’s all Maya and we are repeating a fruitless, useless, songless tune to the dance of a hapless god. This book is dedicated to escape and to freedom, and, ultimately- for us to achieve our own peace- whatever and wherever that may be.
POEM EXCERPT:
Dissection
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We pulled out all the emotions
Restored all the virtues with pity
Replaced the heart with a stone
Tore out the eyes and made
empty sockets of pain
We righted the gun
And cocked the trigger
- Yet
The bullet bled --
And I was left
an empty hole
:AN
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About the Author

Dr. Rosemary Rodgers is a retired physician for the US Army. Aurealia Nelson helped edit this book and she is author of "The Split Brain: An Analysis of Schizophrenia" and "The Split Brain II: Alternatives to Schizophrenia". She holds an MS in psychology and is pursuing a PhD in psychology to further study severe mental disorders such as schizophrenia.