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


11.

HIS SOUL:

Just follow me. Just follow me.

Just stick here by my side.
And promise me that you won’t lead, yet rather I’m the guide.

Just follow me. Just follow me.

I know now I must tell you doses
Or else you’ll end with who-knows-what-osis.
So let us see and let it be
Something very simple like the Vitamin C.
Listen now to my instructions and you’ll be much safer.
You can take it in a tablet or a lozenge or a wafer.
In a powder, in a syrup, in a capsule, in a pill.
Yet do not store it near your oven or on your window sill.
500 milligrams is perfect. A little more? That’s great.
Rose hip added to its content help assimilate.
It repairs your vessels and the structure of you bones.
But too much of it can coagulate and give you kidney stones.
A lack of it can give you scurvy,
Makes your insides topsy-turvy.
But also it can help you whistle, sing a song, or hum.
Provide you with a healthy throat, a healthy voice, and gums.

Just follow me. Just follow me.

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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