"The Perfect High" by Shel Silverstein

It's crazy to think that many people from past and present day turn to drugs to get this rush that they can never find in something positive.  It's as if a person that is addicted to such drugs are always searching for an escape that they never seem to find.  In " The Perfect High"  Gimmesome Roy is on a continuous search for the perfect drug that will lead him to the perfect escape that will help him forget.  He experiments with different drugs like PCP and Cocaine never realizing that in reality he is throwing his life away and only distancing himself from the actual perfect high that comes from experiencing life itself.  In reality this boy continues to go from drug to drug because he is never satisfied.  It doesn't matter how great he may feel when he is high the high never lasts and he can't seem to understand why.  In an odd way he did find the escape though it was not quite the escape he was looking for.  In jumping from drug to drug he slowly left the world around him and the beauty of life that once surrounded him.