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




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And so he does. And so he does.

And salt he most embraces.
For salt can aid in epic things like muscle function, repairing nerves, and homeostasis.

And so he does. And so he does.

And salt can also be the one
To prevent a stroke out in the sun.
To provide him, if you will, a sheet
That screens him from the blazing heat.
For if the sun be idolized,
He might as well get iodized
And have some salt right by his side
To get his daily does of his daily iodide.
Table salt can be enjoyed.
A tablespoon for his thyroid
Boosts it up, metabolism.
This could start fantabulism.
But maybe not so much, too much.
Every little such and such
He adds it on to all his lists,
The condiment of condiments!
When he goes shopping for anything
He’ll either buy or either bring
Table salt or salt from sea.
He searches salt for everything.

HIS SOUL:

Now, you’ve really overdone it!
If excess is a game, you’ve won it.
Hands be down, you are the best
In the find-some-salty, something-salty, I’m-craving-something-salty quest.
I said to add it to your diet,
But you don’t add, you multiply it!

And so he does. And so he does.

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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