Bad Medicines
Affliction
prescriptions:
ingestion
addictions
nontoxic claimed
(quickly disclaimed)
those catchy names
suggesting games
adverse reactions
merely transactions.
Bad Medicines © Copyright 2021, Robert J. Tiess.
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17 words (prompt limit). Unwell brevity challenge prompt - link:
https://allpoetry.com/contest/2738526-Brevity---17-words-exactly
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Poem inspired by things such as the nationwide opioid crisis/epidemic and vaping complications:
https://www.hhs.gov/opioids/about-the-epidemic/index.html
https://www.cdc.gov/tobacco/basic_information/e-cigarettes/severe-lung-disease.html
Submitted: December 14, 2019