That August day

made me pray

for MERCY!

 

My head was pounding 

like a woodpecker on

a metal roof

 

Could hardly see

my eyes were strabismic

 

I reached...

 

in my disarranged

medicene cabinet

 

in my dim

bathroom

 

pulled out the first

pill box

my quavering hands touched

 

I squinted my confused eyes

to examine the fine print

 

It seemed to say Motrin

 

I swallowed a few pills...

 

Soon my mind was confused

like a two year old

trying to tie it's shoe laces

while jumping on a pogo stick

 

My hearing went backwards

like a man who sees a bear

and it's cubs

running straight at him

 

My sight was upside down

like a trapeze artist

swinging with a monkey

on a banana tree

 

I started screaming 

like a wild banshee

 

I heard the door 

swing open

 

then my husband's voice

came to life

 

"Wife what have you done?"

 

I could barely reply

"Took some pills for my head"

 

He grabbed the pill box

and read

 

Moronic

 

"What the F

a stupid pill?"

 

"Where did you find these?"

 

I replied, 

"In the medicene cabinet"

 

He read the warning label

Can cause:

dizziness

lack of sentence formation

feeling like you are someone else

and just plain stupidness

 

So he called 911

 

They said, "We have had a lot of calls about those pills

tonight. There is an antidote"

 

"Oh and do this fast because another side effect is

the side effects are contagious."

 

By Lynn Hahn