'It's A Smaller Pill Today' Poem by Marty McKenna

it's a smaller pill today;
dissolves on the tongue
if i let it,
makes me forgetful.
there are many things left to forget.

i pop it from the blister pack
and my belly grows still,
i hold the seeds of psychosis,
smaller than the wavelength of visible light.

dog bark, street lamp,
these dark mornings;
the world of this interest.
once colours, instead i'm reading
other people night and day.

first published by 'dreich'
appears in the chapbook 'silent stigma, loud leaf'