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Pill 1

Avni Mehta

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Everyone here is faulty

Temporarily, forever, for today

Faulty in their heads and hands

Some have canes to walk

Some like me have Prozac

Green and black plastic tasteless

Orange juice to wash it down

the hair I pulled out

Hopefully will grow back

No new scars on thighs

No new scars on hands

Aware that it’s no cure

But subside my pain to pain myself

Pill 1 could numb a boiling brain

Still wonder if it’s the placebo effect

Will Pill 1 be my last?

Should I take a chance?

About this poem

I write poetry about small moments in my life. I puked this one out at the hospital, when i was prescribed my first anti-depressant.

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Submitted by avnimehta.p on December 21, 2023

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Quick analysis:

Scheme X X A X B X X X B X A X X X X X X
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 496
Words 112
Stanzas 17
Stanza Lengths 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1
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