At the drug store, what to choose?
All those choices do confuse.
Vitamins for gals or men?
Over 50? Pick again!
DayQuil, NyQuil, ZzQuil or
Generic ones made by the store?
Tablets, caplets, maybe gels?
Wonder which one better sells.
Dental floss in mint or plain?
Waxed or unwaxed? What a pain!
Lotions for your winter itch
Look the same, so which is which?
I’m exhausted when I leave
Even though I do believe
Products with a different name,
Though hyped as best, are all the same!
Categories:
caplets, confusion, drug,
Form: Rhyme
we finally find the small aisle, the one i've been searching for.
pass the pink liquids and big white pills
and stop at the little blue ones.
look! you can get 50 caplets for $4.99.
Five dollars for twenty-five nights of sleep.
I do a restrained dance and compare prices.
the cashier does not know she holds
a near month of happy nights for me.
she tosses them in the bag with the chicken,
i jump.
when we return home i put them down,
in an elevated space - the fruit bowl.
and i stare at them for hours
until the clock finally flips over to 10pm.
i dream about dinosaurs in aeroplanes and
beautiful women drinking whiskey with me.
when i awake, the sky is gray and i am out of coffee.
in the excitement i had forgotten
that i'd still have to get out of bed.
Categories:
caplets, depression, health, life
Form: Free verse
Which Came First?
The discourse has been argued many times before.
By kings, by peasants, and learned men galore…
By women, by children nearly started war!
One says, “It was the chicken, of course.” there's more.
From whence came the chicken? Will you please explain?
From the egg… It started with an egg. What a bore!
It is not very simple, to explain it plain.
But imagination and a prayerful soul…
Upon hearing this news could surely sustain.
Day 3 and Day 5 is when genes came alive!
Protected in caplets ‘til on earth beget.
Encased by the thousands each species should survive.
How did He do it? Scientists, study that!
He did NOT do it with a magical hat!
Wisdom's precisions, God created and formed.
Which came first, chicken or the egg? Tell me, you.
Believe me or not; I believe this is true.
‘Twas genes in a caplet where first chickens grew...
I think this could be. Do you think so, too?
© Dane Ann Smith-Johnsen
January 10, 2010
Categories:
caplets, animals, visionary
Form: Terza Rima