
Melodic Propaganda Relations was honored to support the publication and release of I Do Heroin On The Train Line So You Don’t Have To: A Hitchhiker’s Guide To My Galaxie — a poetic memoir chronicling addiction, recovery, and the sacred act of survival.
Part elegy, part exorcism, I Do Heroin On The Train Line So You Don’t Have To traces the long freight-haul of survival through poetic memoir, stained motel mirrors, and the clatter of rust-bucket American. Written between couch crashes, boxcars, and rehab beds, the book is a runaway’s gospel — a guide to a different kind of galaxy, one found not in the stars, but in the skidmarks, scars, and shimmering moments of grace that show up when you’re not supposed to make it.
A book of poems and poetic fragments pulled from backseats and bus stations, this collection moves through the backroads and bathrooms of a different kind of America — one lit by desperation, friendship, punk shows, and flashes of salvation. Somewhere between confessional poetry, underground zine, and whispered prayer, this book documents the sacredness of persistence — the half-dead girl on a payphone, the strange kindness of strangers, the cruel economy of using, and the long road back.
This book doesn’t glorify. It testifies. It warns. It lives.
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