from "Those People Who Died"
Teddy sniffing glue he was 12 years old
Fell from the roof on East Two-nine
Cathy was 11 when she pulled the plug
On 26 reds and a bottle of wine
Bobby got leukemia, 14 years old
He looked like 65 when he died
He was a friend of mine
Punk, New Wave poet Jim Carroll was an aspiring and potentially great basketball player who could have been a professional star until the toil of drug use crumbled his dreams- thus the moral lesson of "Basketball Diaries" which became a launching movie for Leonardo DiCaprio.
