“Cocaine, laced with oxycodone, makes everything fast and still at once, like when you’re on the train and, gazing across the fogged New England fields, at the brick Colt factory where cousin Victor works, you see its blackened smokestack— parallel to the train, like it’s following you, like where you’re from won’t let you off the hook. Too much joy, I swear, is lost in our desperation to keep it.” LifeDrugsCocaineCokeOxycontinOxycodone Book:On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous Source: On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous