Laudanum
May 2, 2010It starts with “laud” -
to praise, revere
(and sounds like “lord”)
- and ends with a num-ness,
a lack of feeling, an absence
of even a tingling at the lips
or fear
a common first choice
of last resort, it seems,
for so many quiet women then -
tired of life under lord,
unlauded,
numb.
In this day and age,
we find other ways
- with names like Paroxetine,
Weight Watchers,
career -
and don’t even know we’re trying to fill
the lack of simple
laud-
-a-
-num.
Written 2 May 2010 – ER
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so many muttled voices. this is a powerful thought to work over in ones mind: the things we do to outrselves in this age that were like the poisons that worked in the past.
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