Long Placebos Poems

1. You have the illness you have always been fearful of. The cause is your fear. You will never sleep, and tea and yoga are only placebos. Welcome to hell.

2. You cannot evade exactly anything...

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*This poem is intended to be read centre aligned*



See 
a 
penny, 
pick it up,
And all the day 
you’ll have good luck,
Or use it to purchase private thoughts,
An evening of thrills and spills and nasty shocks,
Or...

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A single word was all it took
To shatter my resolve and make me open a door
A single word I could only hear
Because I've been popping placebos for months

Blocked from your voice, but not your words
Under...

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As retiring physician, allow me to give
Some suggestions on how to both doctor and live.

You have finally finished the studies required.
You're a doctor at last, but in debt deeply mired.
With degree on display, your career...

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How would I begin to define happiness?
Am I the right scribe to ask?
I've struggled with depression longer than I haven't now
But I noticed something today

And it's not the first time I've noticed it
It's stunning, really,...

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Hot, sweet, sweltering July
When all you can hear are distant hummings
Of inside fans and flies incessant drumming
Fans rattling inside, flies outside amongst the grasses.
Time seems to stand so very still.

Just the act of breathing
Leaves some...

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Cok the hammer, drop the blotter, And we will swim through muddy water
Just drop all your defenses, Don't build fences, blur your senses
Watch the corner, your my spotter, We'll walk right through the bloody slaughter

Cok...

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that fish patiently wait 
at interface of water and fate
burping bubbles for their troubles
water bugs and mosquitoes
unwilling, unsettling for nibbling placebos
acting on a deeper, more hungry drive
to ascend today, eager to stay alive

jaws set wide...

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Here I am: a product of coffee shop
    bricks and apparition footsteps-freakishly
    paradoxical, hungrily swallowing placebos 
    disguised as Penicillin.
I harbor words deep into my hingeless...

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I don't know how else to put this
 its taken me so long to do this 
I'm falling asleep and I can't see straight. 
My muscles feel like a melee body is curled in a...

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three hundred thousand unsmoked fags
since i took the plunge and stopped
i did it cold turkey mates, suffered as
my nicci levels plunged and dropped.

no nicci patches, 
no nicci chewing gum,
no electric cigs,
good enough for some,
no therapies...

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We are all too eager to place the little pills on our shaking tongues. 
Academic idiots force their good intentions, as they lay in bed with corrupt chemical pushers. 
Our TVs are inundated with ads...

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My dear Miss Peach how lovely!
Your table boasts so fair
You've chosen the finest bubbly
Best porcelain plates and crystal ware

Your handpicked guests are perfect
They know just what to say
They are prefects without defects
With no real opinions...

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Living in the city
There are lots of urban joys,
But the one thing we put up with
Is an awful lot of noise.

Though we tune it out by habit
And just rarely come unglued,
There are nights when sleep’s...

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hospitals overflow, all are helpless
fear of death enveloping other fears
covid threat challenging our core concepts
looking on, we can but wipe away tears

no cure exists, yet placebos vanish
police force to dispel crowds at chemists
winner takes all;...

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Your smile lit up my heart
as I basked in its light.
And yet, love died in its shadow,
shrouded in pain.
The surface of trust
was scratched;
susceptible to lies, it started to rust.
And hope tried to seal it
with placebos,...

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