Kerri Shying # 3 Pills ( really really light draft)

Pills

Maybe you do have

a pill problem   even when

you don’t like to take anything

keeping to those six pills a day and

you wouldn’t like to go  onto something

stronger  not when you saw what it did to Craig  

those Tramal  they stopped working  inside my head

words

maybe    you could be   a bit more involved

than you give yourself credit for

the quiet carriage broken   rolling out the

back of Cardiff’s houses  see there is no view but you

look   the morning glory   and the RX   no belay

and bell-like clarity   the opportunity for sympathy

has left me  in the time I took that enema to make this here

trip be possible  one among those clustered small

humiliations  traded for a time-out in the world

and there you are   maybe you do have a problem

maybe you don’t    I

say goodbye the Watagans  I strike out

for the Illawarra scarp   you

ignorant of the seat beneath your arse

opine on dosages   lament  Craig’s sad state

sharing wisdom  places you can get a smoke

for free  all the shame is mine  wrestling here inside this

Tree of Life blanket dress  my firmly Buddhist carapace

maybe I do have a problem

 I don’t like to take   what’s here

any more than you do  maybe

 fuck me too