DOPING

      SO Lance Armstrong cheated
         And you're so surprised
       He's a professional athlete
        Of course he f*****g lied

     Drugs are shooting everywhere
         Careers are on the line
         It's the world we live in
      What are you, f*****g blind?

    With dump trucks full of money
      And warehouses full of fame
     The integrity of sportsmanship
   Gets sucked right down the drain

   Fantastic plays that thrill the fans
     Made by freak s**t humanoids
        Do they share our DNA
     Or are they mutant androids

   Muscles bulging veins exploding
         Incredible freakazoids
    Who's you're favorite Athlete
      You know he's full of roids

        If you want a role model
       You might look elsewhere
       Pro sports is not the place
     For white knights who play fair

      Maybe you think me cynical
         And writing out of line
      I say drugs belong in sports
           I say drugs are fine

    Incredible Physical specimens
        Worshiped by their fans
  You want to see outrageous plays
    Drugs are sure to have a hand

   We push our athletes to the wall
   We want perfect and courageous
     Bigger than life performances
    Standards that are outrageous

       We want to live vicariously
        Through their victories
      Because civilians are pathetic
    And have succumb to monotony

  Athletes can't live up to standards
          Set by our obsessions
    So they use performance drugs
    and fans never learn the lesson

   Sports fans have a choice to make
       For some that's not so easy
     Do we want outrageous plays
       Or do we want integrity

Author's Note

A few words about performance enhancing drugs. In the late 80's when congress was holding hearings on steroids in baseball most of the general public was oblivious to the existence of performance enhancing drugs. When the steroid control act was past in 1989 by president bush a small but highly effective anti steroid campaign was launched that melded with the much larger "Just Say No" anti drug campaign that put it's emphasis on crack cocaine which was branded the scourge of America at the time. The result was Steroids and the people who used them got lumped in with crack heads in the public collective mind and it has by and large stuck to this day. The reality is there are few, if any studies of the long term effects of steroids because the FDA has no interest in such studies and privately funded groups would be hard pressed to get funding owing to steroids being so successfully vilified in popular culture. Much of the "common knowledge" about steroids is based on misinformation and hysteria circulating in a public forum that's prone to hysterics and rumor so when it comes to Steroids what you think you know ain't necessarily so.
Like virtually every other pharmaceutical drug on the market newer, cleaner steroids come out as older ones fade away. Newer drugs like Decca durabolin, Nandrolone and Trenbolone have replaced older, more problematic drugs such as Dainabol for better theraputic effect with minimal side effects.
Steroids are drugs and like all drugs some people do well on them, some people do poorly and some people will abuse them. Anabolic Steroids are legal for private use in much of the world and most are legal in the US with a doctors prescription. If you read this far thank you and think about my little steroid essay when you're at the bar on your forth drink and sucking on a cigarette. Thank you

Reviews

[KeeD]

I totally agree with what you have to say through this piece, the game isn't the same game we all used to know.. Now it's a commercial competitive show. I'm pro drugs in sports too, because regardless if people like it or not they're being used so why not just everyone use them. I love your ability to rhyme and keep the flow.. Bravo B.R, masterpiece.

[Baby Ricochet]

Thank you Keegan

[N!LoC]

ok wow.... u just wrote a poem which im assuming sparked inspiration from recent happenings with lance... yikes... talent rico talent rico!

[Baby Ricochet]

Thank you N!LoC

[Marie]

I'm not an athlete or a sports fan, but I'd say you have summarized this up nicely.

[Baby Ricochet]

Thank you Marie

[Ama May Cooper]

This is a brilliant statement of truue and honest word, if only many more would think aboout it with such a insightful eye. The poem not only filled with a very important message, was rhythmical and almost sing songy to read , despite the dark message having an up beat tempo.
Loved it, glad i stumbled across it

[Baby Ricochet]

Thank you Ama May

[Chris]

culturally, morally, legally - all are issues to be resolved. Nothing is EVER free.

[Baby Ricochet]

Nope, Nothing's for free.

[Richard Man]

There is a problem that has emerged from the capitalist way of life and that is that there exists the absurd idea that permanent growth, continual development and the possibility that everything can improve everything for ever and ever... Amen. What about death and what about natural decline?
This fallacy , as you rightly say , means there is now a media demand for bigger and better and faster and cleverer and newer things to replace whatever. This has moved into sport and education as well. Kids are being cajoled by their hot-house parents to compete for every piece of crap put upon them, to take every activity under the sun, to take medication to conform and succeed. Athletes need to enhance their performances with diets, drugs and regimes if they are to win. In both cases kids and athletes burn themselves out or lose their souls.

[Baby Ricochet]

Interesting commentary. The drugs are getting better too as well as better information on how to use them effectively. Newer Steroids like Decca Durabolin, Nandrolone and Trenbolone are cleaner than old school Dianabol or winstrol were so side effects aren't typically as severe. Knowing how to stack them, that is take combinations of them for maximum theraputic effect with minimal side effects is critical with thres drugs and in the past no one knew what they were doing. It's easy to get all the information you need now to make all your athletic fantasies come true.

[Richard Man]

A nd they are getting better at making parents think.... and producing at a nice price.... better drugs to improve memory, recall, IQ, attention etc

[Andie]

This poem speaks so many different levels of truth. I'm not much of a sports fan, maybe some baseball every now and then, but this is still 100% true.
Nice job.

[Baby Ricochet]

I'm not either. Thank you for the review Amanda.

[Andie]

Your very welcome. :3

[Sweet Emotions]

This is so true, and expressed really well.

[Baby Ricochet]

Thank you

[Muse]

In other words we can't have our cake and eat it too. We want wild excitement in sportmanship, but take the drugs out and we may only see an average game. Great write.

[Baby Ricochet]

Thank you Muse

[Art Sun]

this has been around for quite some time, its just more exposed now...nice work....

[Baby Ricochet]

Thank you Art