Fry Meme

(We all know how medications have side-effects.  Some are much worse than others.  It can even get silly like anxiety meds that can cause anxiety.  My personal favorite was a medication I took for anxiety long ago gave me insomnia AND vivid nightmares.  So, I had trouble sleeping, but the times I did fall asleep were met with mental horrors.  All I remember is melting baby doll faces coming at me.  No idea why . . . Here’s the poem.)

As I sit here coughing
I contemplate this pill
A harsh Pandora’s Box
Holding hope
And an army of horrors
I am forced to swallow
With a bathtub’s worth of water
My shredded throat
Whimpering against the pill
Until it finds my stomach
Forcing me to wait
My mind wanders
I start to fear the worst
Hours of vomiting if I eat
Muscles popping if I wake
Nightmares if I sleep
Discharges of all manners
A feeling of fire upon my skin
The list of horrors
Is longer than my ills
All to cure a choking cough
And a runny nose
Will I heal without incident
Or will the worst befall me?