101 Uses of a Dead Roach by Simon Bond

Author:Simon Bond
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781407089898
Publisher: Random House

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The first puff of a spliff, like the first sip of fine red wine, awakens a smooth and dreamy state of consciousness. The second puff sends comforting and optimistic thoughts flowing sweetly through the mind. Exaggerated past memories tickle fanciful futures. It has always been wonderful, and now it is going to be even better. After the third puff, seemingly profound ideas suddenly introduce themselves but immediately become uncontrollable, fantastic, plentiful, and impossible to articulate in traditional discourse. It is absurd, irreverent, hilarious and ridiculous, yet more significant than anything previously contemplated. Uncontrollable mirth threatens to invade from every aspect. You have no defence or control. Everything seems funny, because everything is funny. Earnestness, solemnity, and seriousness suddenly reveal themselves as mere clowns in life's big top. You are laughing. You are stoned, spannered, shitfaced, smashed, and starfished. Puff some more. With life and love, spliff and cigarette, the bigger the drag, the more you get. So suck it again and again.

Butt at the end is the roach.

The first published use of the word ‘roach’ to denote the stub of a thin and tobacco free marijuana cigarette appeared on the pages of the March 12th, 1938, issue of the New Yorker in a feature written by Pulitzer prize-winner Meyer Berger. Buck Washington’s 1944 jazz classic ‘Save the Roach for Me’ paid due acknowledgement to the roach's desirability and ensured the word's already long lived security of parlance. A roach increases in strength as it nears its end and finally metamorphoses into a small flat burnt brown creature, wrinkling and straining to absorb every psychoactive juice and resin available.

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