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

[Mr Dunne Poetry]

Great read BR. Unfortunately, so true.

[Baby Ricochet]

Thank you Mr Dunne

[Mr Dunne Poetry]

You're welcome :)

[Salar Majak]

we surly want integrity! that is final! you are so right about this! and the theme of the poem is both new and beautiful! great job!

[Baby Ricochet]

thank you

[Salar Majak]

:)

[DIVYA]

Thanks for telling it like it is Baby!
It was a great read!

[Baby Ricochet]

thank you

[Inda]

Couldn't have said it better myself; give them drugs, pump them up good
and lets watch them all do crazy s**t!

[Baby Ricochet]

thank you

[realmwriter]

I really don't give a damn if they use drugs or not. It still takes skill to do what they so regardless if they use drugs or not. The skill is either learned or inherent. The drugs just enhance what they can already do. It does not give them talent that they don't have...! I SAY LET THEM ALL DOPE, then it's an even playing field again...! Great write by the way...!

[Baby Ricochet]

Thank you and no drugs don't give you anything for free.

[Relic]

Sooner or later, I'm sure the use of all those drugs will wreak havoc on their health. I know people who took stuff in high school and they have blood, kidney and other health problems now because of it. You're right, it's really all about the money, but what a price they'll pay later.Good poem. (Even with the cursing). ha

[Baby Ricochet]

Thank you

[Relic]

Welcome.

[Annabelle Lee]

I'm really not all that in to pro sports so I couldn''t really care less. My apoologis gor being rash....

[Baby Ricochet]

I'm not either really. THanks for reading my work Annabelle. I love your new Avitar

[Annabelle Lee]

You're welcome :) Thanks! It's my totem.

[Baby Ricochet]

Cool. Mine's the wolf.

[Annabelle Lee]

Sweet! Haha... we're cousins lol jk.

[quinfinn]

all i can say is....those high performance racing engines don't do it on regular unleaded gasoline....this is a valid and poignant write and you have made a point in your words.

[Baby Ricochet]

Thank you Quinfinn

[quinfinn]

always a pleasure, BR

[KAOlmsted]

There's no way to stop it, I think they should allow it and regulate it. The money making machine that is professional sports could certainly afford to keep all of its athletes in dope and employ some of the best doctors in the world to regulate the dosages. If a player exceeds his or her allotted amount, THEN they should face the inquiries. But simply dosing? Nah. Leave them be. It makes the games more interesting ;-)

Thanks for sharing this well thought out and really good write, Baby.

[Baby Ricochet]

Thank you lil MILF

[KAOlmsted]

xD I love that! My pleasure, Baby ;-)

[Frieda P]

Hate to think that they'd sacrifice their integrity and manhood for the spotlight but that is the world we live in today...

Every write of yours just gets better and better than the last Baby, is there some kind of roid for poetry too? ;-)

[Baby Ricochet]

Your an athlete. You have an idealized fantasy in your head where you want be and you've got the disapline, motivation and are willing, even eager to do the work to make your fantasy happen. Only trouble is you're genetics are less than perfect so you take performance enhancing drugs and your fantasy is suddenly within reach where before it really wasn't. A cycle of steroids is like a winning lottery formula to an athlete.

[Frieda P]

They're also extremely addictive, make for crazed athletes and f**k with your health....

[Baby Ricochet]

Do you actually know anything about performance enhancing drugs or are you just mindlessly going along with what the media says?

[Frieda P]

Yes, more than I care to know, my son used to do them years ago....

[Frieda P]

...and my back bristled at the tone.