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Quirked

At times, my touch on my own skin
is will- o – wisp – y, for it feels
like something strange resides within.

I’m in Oz but can’t click my heels.
This “ghost” in me just wants to stay.
When I’m at rest, often it reels!

I’m not “high,” nor am I crazy.
A drug prescribed, though, is to blame
I know why my strange quirks haunt me.

A victim of Big Pharma’s game,
I’ve taken myself off their crap.
Six months have passed; I’m still the same.

No lining has my mouth! Like sap,
bad taste upon my lips is stuck.
Big Pharma, ‘fess up! Take the rap.

My bottom lip I need to suck.
Expect to see me chewing gum.
I float when I walk!  W T F??

Thanks to my Doc (the big fat bum)
I can’t help sometimes feeling glum.

4/22/2019 for Nina Parmenter's Quirky Tercets Poetry Contest

Copyright © Andrea Dietrich | Year Posted 2019

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CayCay Jennings Date: 5/4/2019 2:30:00 AM I was punching along with each jabbing stanza, and then I got slammed with overwhelming pride when I read wtf! You went there and it was powerfully effective. You poked the Wildside with at least a toe and planted a grin on me. TV will someday show an ad to join a lawsuit if you ever took _____" And you'll say, ' whaaaat?' Reading also made me think 'possessasite (vs. parasite) that won't leave". Live long enough for that ad to come on. dta (that's dam_ t_em _all. Love, CauCau Login to Reply Andrea Dietrich Date: 5/4/2019 2:56:00 PM haha Caucau!!! Mary K, right? Like with a pink cadillac? I like that word you coined Possessaite. Yep, it's that all right!! CayCay Jennings Date: 5/4/2019 2:32:00 AM No, it isn't, it isn't Love, CauCau at all, its K K, okay?

Ralph Sergi Date: 4/24/2019 3:11:00 PM Hi Andrea: We areal bound by evil spirits of the demons of reality and Big Pharma is one of them. Login to Reply Andrea Dietrich Date: 4/24/2019 6:19:00 PM Yes, this is me. Trying to find a way to get toxins out of my body. You are so right about them being evil spirits . And their God and master is money. Ralph Sergi Date: 4/24/2019 3:12:00 PM I LOVED YOUR POEM AND I HOPE IT WASN'T YOU.

Matthew Anish Date: 4/23/2019 9:59:00 PM I just went to the periodontist and it was somewhat painful. I had my 5th poem in the NY Times last Monday. I had a pretty good Passover - hope you had a good Easter. Religions are interesting - my sister bought me 6 cds on Buddhism, Christianity, Islam, Hinduism and Judaism. The great courses catalogue has very interesting things in it. I also listened to one on philosophy. All best Matthew Anish Login to Reply Andrea Dietrich Date: 4/24/2019 6:19:00 PM Congrats, Matt.

Kim Rodrigues Date: 4/23/2019 7:45:00 PM So sorry! A good rant...a sad plight! Hugs, my friend! :( Login to Reply Andrea Dietrich Date: 4/23/2019 7:52:00 PM thanks for the sympathy , KIm, it's SO annoying to live with and then I think of people so much worse off than I am, with their teeth falling out from it. Or I think of people born paralyzed or with constant migraines. How horrible life must be for these poor souls.

Caren Krutsinger Date: 4/23/2019 4:27:00 PM This is a quirky tercet indeed! I expect to see this place high up on the list Andrea. Login to Reply Andrea Dietrich Date: 4/23/2019 7:52:00 PM thanks, Caren.

Tom Cunningham Date: 4/23/2019 1:22:00 PM All the pharma companies are interested in is profits not health. Login to Reply Andrea Dietrich Date: 4/23/2019 2:48:00 PM Even the employees of Meramec (the drug company) are scared to death of their own bosses. This is the word on the internet. it's all about the almighty dollar. They invent lies to cover up what they are doing. Already a class action suit was made by people breaking bones after going off Prolia. Meramac easily afforded the lawsuit. Not as many people have my effects. they are very rare, but maybe one day I can see a lawsuit that I can be part of. More and more people will complain and then we will be heard.

Connie Marcum Wong Date: 4/23/2019 12:02:00 PM Prolia needs to be exposed for the horror it causes Andrea....yet it is still touted on T.V. commercials as the answer to bone health. Big Pharma...Big Ripoff! Put this on Facebook my friend. Sorry you must endure these side effects. xxoo Login to Reply Connie Marcum Wong Date: 4/24/2019 4:51:00 PM Prescribing this drug is Criminal I needs people like you to blow the whistle. Thanks Andrea xxoo Andrea Dietrich Date: 4/23/2019 2:43:00 PM Connie, I posted about bone health on FB and got nobody to even LIKE it. Americans are unaware or just don't care. When they get older and start having these poisons put into their body without being first told ALL the possible consequences or other options, that is when they will wake up and smell the toxins! Our medical system is a joke. Doctors get only a few weeks education in nutrition. Morons!

Arturo Michael Date: 4/23/2019 6:24:00 AM It's big business...and we are the experiment...it' not about health...all about money... Login to Reply Andrea Dietrich Date: 4/23/2019 2:41:00 PM so true. I DESPISE the company that puts out Prolia. A CEO of it is Utah's longest running senator Orrin Hatch, advocate of drug industry, and he got it approved by FDA somehow. I bet there was a lot of bribery going on for that one!!

Robert Johnson Date: 4/22/2019 8:29:00 PM Medication side effects. :/ I'm sorry you're being subjected to these awful feeling's Andrea. Years ago I stopped taking prilosec because it caused my whole back to spasm. And even today I still will bump into something just lightly and Ohhhhh, my whole body just convulses. :/ I hope your symptoms go away completely. <3 Login to Reply Andrea Dietrich Date: 4/23/2019 2:50:00 PM good for you for stopping that crap, robert. I hope you found a natural solution. What really irks me is that our own doctors deny that we what we are telling them is the truth. uggggg.

Vijay Pandit Date: 4/22/2019 6:58:00 PM I read that article..just can't believe the side effects. Glad you stopped it, Andrea. Your poem certainly excels in the theme..the form looks so hard to write..but, you executed superbly. All the best for a win at the TOP. Login to Reply Andrea Dietrich Date: 4/23/2019 2:53:00 PM thanks, vijay. I appreciate that.