VITAMINS AND MINERALS

1. The Rooms Look Bad
2. The Man, So Stuck
3. He Wants to Move
4. He Takes a Nap
5. He Falls Away
6. He Sleeps Too Much
7. He Needs to Breathe
8. He Finds the Book
9. Just for Example
10. And So He Does
11. Just Follow Me
12. He Grabs Some Cake
13. It Comes to This
14. The Soul Seems Lost
15. Kick Ass




8.

But—

He finds the book. He finds the book.

The memories flood back
Of how it felt to irrigate and have a tube go up his crack.

He finds the book. He finds the book.

On supplements and herbs.
And vitamins that promise him healthy new adverbs.
Like “more alive” and “energized”.
“Healthfully” and “fertilized”.
Chapter 3, page 62:
WHAT ANTIOXIDANTS CAN DO FOR YOU

THE MAN:

This book is crap! It makes no sense! I don’t know why I got it!

HIS SOUL:

That book’s not crap. It’s what you need and that is why you bought it.

It gives advice that’s really good, both practical and medical.
You should read that part you skipped right here on phytochemicals.
On co-enzymes and carotenoids.
The benefits of flavonoids.
They support a healthy system and repair your damaged cells.
And help maintain the healthy ones to keep them good and well.
Provided you with the oxygen to give you perfect blood.
Because when you bleed, you want to bleed, not overflow or flood.
Because the tissue has been punctured or possibly provoked,
Cut with scissors or a scalpel, a knife, or maybe poked.
The blood will come to rescue the surface of your skin.
And perform its magic and its purpose from within.

He finds the book. He finds the book.

03/19/2008

Author's Note: Vitamins and Minerals was written in June 2003. It was originally performed as a One-Man-Poetry-Show at One Arm Red Theatre in DUMBO, Brooklyn. You can read the poem in its entirety. Or broken up in 15 individual pieces.

Posted on 03/19/2008
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