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Pharmacologically Yours

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Literature Text

Stridor in your sleep,
an irregular heart beat
-your congestive heart is failing.
Your heart has grown,
(pathological as opposed to romantic)
and I know my love you're ailing;
but I can't be your beta blocker, baby.
There's a third party problem
which I can't seem to erase.
Don't look to me for ACE inhibition...
Tachycardia, as your heart begins to race,
tears on skin of lace;
I hope you survive without the cure.


I'm sorry,
I couldn't be pharmacologically Yours.
Here is a piece I started writing during finals last semester; and it happens to be about pharmacology, well the metaphor deals with congestive heart failure, and a large amount of pharmacy issues. The terms used here are a bit weird I admit, and there is a lot of medical jargon thrown it for effect...which may make the piece confusing/hard to read. But remember; its educational! :)

It's a bit rough, so comment hard if you could. :)
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ViciousCabaret's avatar
Physiologist here, and the poem gave me some good chuckles. Nice work!

The only thing that irked me was the punctuation after ACE inhibition. To me, that's a rather strong statement, and the punctuation deflates it somehow. That's just a personal preference, of course.