at walgreens
waiting,
standing opposite chocolate laxatives and baby wipes,
bladder control pads and acne scrubs,
mouthwashes and home perm kits,
I wait.
I wait to pick up a drug of some generic name which
is suppose to make me feel less anxious
about our civilization being on the edge
of global nuclear annihilation.
Waiting also, at the very end of the line, an elderly lady,
a dromedary with hair like corkscrew pasta,
hollers, out of nowhere,
and to no one in particular:
"I'm half-blind and half-deaf but fully insured."
We are waiting,
both of us are waiting,
together,
for a prescription or for annihilation.
whichever comes first.
About this poem
This is a captured micro-moment I experienced and this woman said what she said and it struck me that we're both in the same situation even though we are entirely different people.
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Written on May 01, 2022
Submitted by tgmolitor on June 10, 2022
Modified on March 29, 2023
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Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 660 |
Words | 141 |
Stanzas | 16 |
Stanza Lengths | 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1 |
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