POETRY

A Pill Will Make Her Better, Yes It Will

A poem about prescriptions

Photo by Danilo Alvesd on Unsplash

Am I always going to be like this?
it’s a rhetorical question.

Look at me! [spits in self-pity]

This self-doubting, eternally useless string bag,
I look great on the shelf,
but I can’t keep anything in.