Best Prescribed Poems

This is a poem I wrote on my Instagram account daisymeadows2023 
Poetry prompt for Coralynn. poetry

PRESCRIBED POETRY
Prescription - 1 poem a day,
1 pen and paper,
Add words that you wish to say.
Writers block can get you in a stew,
But it won't last forever,
Maybe a day or...

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I grit my teeth and white my knuckles
as my newfound mentor chuckles.
He teaches me about disdain,
but no matter, I planned for pain.
My eyes both flutter as I shudder,
then I hear him coarsely utter:
"Good, looks like you still feel somethin'.
***** I swear, you ain't worth nothin'."
Lashes...

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No matter I got prescribed Glycopyrrolate 2 mg tablets taken four times a day...,

not one drop of sweat
(especially on hot humid and hazy days) 
less than a gallon 
exudes forth from my pores
but nevertheless 
I can single handedly manage...
primary idiopathic palmar/
palmoplantar hyperhidrosis.

Aforementioned physiological malady
unwanted and...

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(yes, I'm serious)

Three minutes.

That’s how long it took
to name a swarming mess:
A self-appointed poet
with rogue chemicals sizzling in her nerves.
The diagnosis long and fancy—
bitter but addictive 
on my tongue,
like the gin I’ve grown fluent in.
(Is that why his voice was slurred?)

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