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When Vitamin and Medication Bottles Became Plaything of the Missus

When vitamin and medication bottles became plaything of the missus

Mental health of yours truly
heavily reliant upon one selective serotonin
reuptake inhibitor named fluoxetine (Prozac)
aside from countless
(approximately seven) other
prescription medications kept
stashed in a plastic tray
until one or more taken at least once
or at most three times daily.

The wife flush with grand ideas
to gleefully, playfully,
and zestfully pester me
dreamt up a new fangled game,
whereat she moves
fast as greased lightning
thunderously laughing
her dexterous hands
airing maneuvering feints,
either replacing and/or removing
drug containers;
(some with caps prone
to pop off with relative ease
versus others with child protective covers
even though our progeny -
deux darling daughters -
long since emotionally, financially
and spiritually fending for themselves).

Though childlike said antics
exhibited courtesy the wife
analogous magician eliciting "poof"
prestidigitation her wrist flicks
her reputation to wield
sinister magical powers rife
as a graduate of Hogwarts School
of Witchcraft and Wizardry,
she ranked as an outsize force
with legacy legerdemain legion
instantaneously kickstarting 
irreversible incantation
finding me transformed
into a nasty, short and brutish oaf
with little spindleshanks -
think toothpicks for legs -
reigned on from tempest in a teapot
while seeking cover under
lee side tulip tree leaf
comfortably numb nestled within kloof.

All around me
symphonic quiescent overture – heard
maestro Kant imitate
tryouts starring musical prodigies
and/or an attendant conductor
attempt to approach ambient chorus
divinely exhibited from Gaia's handiwork
heavenly invoking kapellmeister
magnificent nonchalant outlook
piquantly, quintessentially, 
repertoire sensately striking 
unmatched vast wisdom 
yielding zephyr air albeit creativity 
engineered from groundswell harmony
juxtaposed, kindled, linkedin, 
manifesting noteworthy 
opulent philharmonic recording
transcribing universal 
veritable webbed wide world.
 
Wunderkinds yield Ziggurat 
acme approximated asymptote
bequeathing celestial 
Doppelganger Earthly emulations 
formulating fractal glinting highlighting
ineffable joie de vivre jostling, keen kindling, 
la la land legerdemain lifting logic
lording Ludwig (Josef Johann) Wittgenstein.
 ?
Yelping zoological apostle 
Al affidavit Gore handily 
heaping hubristically invocation 
jolting kickstart measures 
nipping nixed noblesse oblige opera
quickening quotidian 
rapid ruination sans supreme 
teetering upended venerated wise with acumen
arithmetical Benoit Mandelbrot
chasing far-fetched ideas
lightyears menacing nihilism 
purging ogres opportunistically  
resplendently ripping 
revered tankard tipping unstoppably
vanquishing varietal whipsawing 
wonderful wrapt yawning  youngsters 
warfare written wrought  
yanking zestfully crushing environmental family
granting Herculean instant karma 
malevolent, opprobrious pronouncement
quiet riot silencing severely 
tragic ubiquitous vicious wreckage 
yik yaks apemen cleft Earth.
 
Future foragers denounce 
capitalistic bamboozlers aggression
zealots wrought trashing 
quintessential naked kingdoms issue
flotsam coagulates zonal wastelands 
torquing quality NON
killing habitats Earth bleached 
yellowed voodoo ruins.

Copyright © Matthew Harris

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