Here's a goody by XJ Kennedy. Just goes to show that if you can write a poem about aspirin, you can write about anything.
Taking Aspirin
Go, boats of the blood,
Carry your cargo of ease to the ports of the body,
Unload surcease upon the swollen toe,
The ache-contorted finger,
Deceive the frazzled nerve ends into sleep.
Shove off, cockswains, you're loaded.
Here's health to you. I wash you on your way.
Waiting for you to deliver,
I dream of horsebacked statues pale as chalk
Erected to the discoverers of aspirin
Who walk in radiance by the streams of Lethe,
Bayer-assed, in starched hospital dickies. |
