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AZOTH--Pick A Title Poetry Contest
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should i take a dose of azoth
to cure my sloth?
it may well make
my mind like quicksilver
sending me messages from
the mouths of gods
at round about 80wpm
or will it just make my moods mercurial
and put little beads
of silver sweat across
my furrowed brow
with its inherent toxicity.
if i take a dose of azoth
or liquid cinnabar.
i may live fast,
but i won't live long...
my old friend Paracelsus
tells me "the dose makes
the poison" and in this he
is right.
i might skip the azoth.....
and the cinnibar liquid too
go for coffee instead....
or could just succumb
to sloth and stay in bed.
Copyright ©
Sara Etgen-Baker
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