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




15.

Kick ass.
Kick ass.
Kick ass.

The man continues for a while.
As he kicks his ass in style.

Kick ass.
Kick ass.
Kick ass.

Perspiration on his brow.
He is really moving now.
He starts to breathe a little faster.

THE MAN:

I’ve got my very own AssMaster.
I’m really thirsty. Need a drink.
I feel it now. Instead of think.
Now I feel I understand.
In the scheme of all that’s good and grand.
When I feel the need to take things to extremes,
Just make sure and find a way it doesn’t harm my dreams.
Because sometimes what I want to do may seem a bit extreme,
Because something somewhere in my life is less than what I need.
And to overcome it, the problem I believe
Is I take the thing that is already perfect and mess it up, it seems.
For I do not focus on the problem but I overcompensate
Something else that I’ve no reason to underestimate.
I have a lot of catching up. And that is fine by me.
I have a journey now to take now that I am free.
I am more than brain and mind.
I am back. And I’m behind.

Kick ass.
Kick ass.
Kick ass.

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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