Cough Drops
a poem. by thechronicler. now with surprise ending!
you
always?
eat
cough
drops
lemony-fresh
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cough
drops
coffee-house beatnik in all black
wo
man in black hunting aliens with
hallucinogenic
lemony-fresh
lemony-menthol-lyptus-fresh! great citrus odor!
cough
drops
Dedicated
to
Jay?
and
Nina?
May her breath
always
be
lemony-fresh
lemony-menthol-lyptus-fresh! great value!
cough
drops
warning: package may contain
delectably delicious
lemony-fresh
lemony-menthol-lyptus-fresh! vapor action!
throat
lozenges
This poem is partially parody on the… interesting poetry on such pages as www.poetry.com and partially a parody of a girl in my English class who obsessively eats cough drops (upwards of five an hour). I took inspiration from my friend, Jay, who wrote a persuasive essay urging all students to write to our senators requesting cough drops be outlawed, and from my website, DamagedLemon, which itself is a parody of consumerism. Please don’t take this poem as a serious piece of poetry, because it certainly isn’t.