The antidote to everything

Aspirin may help in fight against depression

Daily Mail, 18 August 2012

I turn to aspirin, much as some
turn to religion. To prove
this virtuoso medicine’s
omnipotence, I once perused

Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason
through a fog of countless fills
of Stella Artois (five percent
in those days, understand) until,

crows pulling worms from my eyes,
cork borers trepanning my skull,
I quaffed the regulation two
pills and slept like virgin snow.

Blissful sleep, the gentle thief.
Eternal sleep, the antidote
to everything. I got me aspirin,
what’s to be depressed about?

(c) 2012 Slush Poet