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So Many Pills
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So Many Pills… A pill to sleep, Another for my head to keep, Still another to keep me calm, From me you would hear not a peep, Yet another for my memory I get to keep, And yet another to think thoughts so dark and deep, Don’t want to allow my memory to flow away, yes to seep… So many pills to help us stay alive, Take them we do, we usually do not decide, Doctors tell us we need them to avoid suicide, Rather would I; float away and die on the outgoing tide… Pills for everything we do got, and then again not, Pills to help us kick habits like that of pot, Are they better than the reason we take them? Or is it better to get high and live happily with our lot…? © ed poppywrittED ~ 7/20/04

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Reviewed by Susan de Vegter

Reviewed on July 21, 2004

This makes me recall "The Valley of the Dolls". Good book and good poem here.
Susan

Reviewed by Tinka Boukes

Reviewed on July 21, 2004

Can you get a pill for Happiness??

Well written Ed!!

Love Tinka

Reviewed by Nordette Adams

Reviewed on July 21, 2004

Okay, Ed. How long have you had the investigators searching my medicine cabinet?

Hmm. Perhaps pot is an option?

Deceptively simple poem. I like it! ...Nordette

Reviewed by Karen Lynn Vidra, The Texas Tornado

Reviewed on July 21, 2004

I don't take that many pills (thank goodness! I mainly take 'em for pain due to arthritis, plus I had a headache earlier), but I DO take some! I konw how you feel, and Karla does, too; it's a wonder she doesn't rattle! LOL

Good write, though; enjoyed~

(((HUGS))) and much love, your friend in Tx, Karen Lynn. :D

Reviewed by Karla Dorman, The StormSpinner

Reviewed on July 21, 2004

(((ed)))

got any muscle relaxers? LOL

i know this feeling well--that is, if i can think through this foggy haze LOL

seriously, you raise an important issue--there are pills for your original problem, then you have to take pills to counteract the side effects from the original ones...and then more and more pills...the beat goes on...and then they wonder why people are overmedicated LOL

(((HUGS))) and love, karla. :)

still need a muscle relaxer, though LOL

Reviewed by Ann Piatt

Reviewed on July 21, 2004

Ahhhh...so much to consider. I can't stand taking medicine...yuck...and only do if there is no alternative. It seems we are a culture very dependant upon ways to cure all that ails us...no matter the price.

Ann

Reviewed by Daniel McTaggart

Reviewed on July 21, 2004

I think you're a pill, Ed. Better watch out before someone takes you for what they got! Which begs the question: If you really were a pill, what would you cure?

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