The fabric of society is shot through
With this idea to change the way we feel.
Some methods, like talking it out
And healthy exercise - perhaps yoga;
Or just eating good food instead of grease -
They have their merits,
Which may be discussed down the road...
But, what about
Taking two aspirin,
With or without doctor supervision?
Or, drinking, or drugging,
Our minds into a stupor,
Worse than slugs on ice?
Feel your allergies returning, this year?
Why not self-medicate
With what worked last year,
Or maybe Facebook's suggested potage?
OOooo... you have a chronic illness
That we barely know how to treat?
Try this brand new medicine,
Even though, in ten years,
It may give you diabetic feet...
Got a pain in your back,
And the pain-killers
Are not giving you slack?
Maybe you can fudge the doses...
Quite a slippery track.
It's so easy to feed Big Pharma,
It's so easy to add one more pill,
To build ourselves up to a morning cocktail
Of thirteen or more drugs for our ills...
All the while, not caring or watching
How they interact, or new symptoms instill.
Physician! Heal Thyself!
Do not tell me to "Take Two..."
Tell me how to live well,
That good health will then ensue,
For I am not a lab rat
From which your data accrues...
...and this is but one facet,
With no mention of
Tobacco, alcohol,
And all the rest...
I need to let my mind stew,
Before observing those best...
----- poem seeds below ------
Take the zyprexia to feel better,
Get diabetes ten years later...
Cocktail of 17 pills day and night,
Whose effects have no foresight.
Got a pain in the back...
take a pain killer...
if we legalize it,
then the criminal activity drops...
but what about the abuse?
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