SIDE EFFECTS

A few drug related side effects I may have experienced

They gave me Prozac I couldn't cum

Paxil turned me psycho on everyone

Valium made me sleep for days

Xanax put me in a haze

Wellbutrin had me throwing fits

With Ritalin I couldn't s**t

I lost my mind on Abifly

With Remeron I thought I was bi

Efexor gave me a facial twitch

Celexa made my privates itch

on buspar I just fart all day

Lexapro just turned me gay

With all these meds I can't consume

Just lock me in the timeout room

Or stick in a field of daisies

And I'll just stay with all the crazies

 

 

 

Reviews

[Enu Balogun]

I immedietely thought about the commercials. You know every time you see a commercial about a medication you hear those about side effects from the narrator. OMG. I was laughing because I was thinking that while reading this. I thought it was awesome.

And I also found it really cool that you were able to rhyme still upon all the medication names and the side effects. I'd find it a bit difficult.

Great poem!

[Rene Velez]

Wow, a list of side effects one must endure to stay well in a society that shuns the mentally ill, powerful read, with a pinch of humor, but still real.

[Kaylor Mason]

Be careful how you treat those crazies . . . as soon as you're on their side of the fence, you are one, whether you like it or not--and you don't get a say in it. It's a hard truth. This poem of yours might be meant to be homurous, and it is, but I can only comment the same way you did with Burns. I guess I've seen and felt too much of this s**t to laugh. I remember days like this, and several drugs I took screwed me up more than I care to think about. I remember it was really fun on suicide watch, and the heaters gave out in the winter, and we had to pace around the cells and jump up and down all night to keep from freezing to death, just because the state was more concerned giving prisoners cable television than taking care of people who really needed help--God what a f*****g nightmare!

[Kaylor Mason]

The world is not kind to the sick, the lame, and the weak. It has a really vicious was of reminding us how much we don't matter

[KAOlmsted]

Oh my god; how did I miss this one?? As usual, classic Baby Ricochet. That lace slip of truth that peeks out from beneath the ball gown of humor...excellent. (Even if your my is all over your goddamn floor...)

;-)

[Baby Ricochet]

One of my first HAHA poems. Thank you for reviewing it Kimmer.

[KAOlmsted]

My pleasure, Baby...anything new in the works?

[Ryan Halterman]

Haha Great stuff. Sad to say I have been on most of these on buspar I just fart all day is f*****g classic.This one had me laughing pretty good

[Rosalind Gale]

I am a full strength norco girl myself, with a large hit of oxycontin thrown in. 'Prozac Nation' was just for the kids. Though I am totally wired, I mean, totally fixed; it is the vodka martini that did it: And you love Joy Division - perhaps my favorite group of all time. Gosh, I am glad you dropped by and reviewed one of mine, if you had not, I would not have read the poems of what, if I may be so bold, I consider to be my 'type of guy.'
Rosalind
-xx-

[Baby Ricochet]

Thanx. I once played Unknown Pleasures for a friend of mine and she was an instant convert. Siouxsie and THe Banshees, Joy Division and Bauhaus. They Invented Goth.

[Shimmerbliss/CAF]

This was great! I am sorry to laugh about it, but I believe that you would like that. Absolutely fantastic really...just think what you could do with this...it would be a lot better if we heard poems like this instead of all those lawyer commercials telling us basically the same thing. You are so good.

[Baby Ricochet]

Thanx.

[astronaut]

LOVELOVELOVELOVELOVE and so true. Abilify made me an absolute wreck, it takes a long time to find the right medication, took me 4 hospitals in a year....

[Baby Ricochet]

The first four lines actually did happen. Yeah it does take time and a lot of aggravation to get your meds straight.

[Dr. Wood ?]

Shouldn't that penultimate line read 'stick ME in a field of daisies?'

whatever...The last two lines do it for me...great!

reminds me of the late great Warren Zevon...I doubt you've heard of him. He spent more time in re hab than out...but wrote some crackingly good stuff...If you like songs about love...Rape...murder...re hab....headless gunmen...I could go on

[Baby Ricochet]

It's a typo. Werewolves of london. The song Kid Rock ripped off.

[Dr. Wood ?]

yeah, thats the guy...but you should check out excitable boy on u tube...Cracking song and the subject matter..like all of zevons stuff is like nothing you ever heard in a song

[Baby Ricochet]

After 20 long years they let him out of the home. Excitable boy they all said
So he dug uo her grave and made a cage with her bones. Excitable boy they all said.

[Baby Ricochet]

Cool.

[Baby Ricochet]

You know this one? Shady politician in my bed. Tying bolts of lightning to his head. Call me rabbit fighter you know it's true oh babe I'd rabbit fighta over you.

[Dr. Wood ?]

NO...but don't great lyrics just get yah

[Baby Ricochet]

Marc Bolen from T-Rex. You're an Englishman so I thought you might know that one. I got two older rocker brothers and was being exposed to bands like Led Zeppilen, THe Stones and Bowie when I was a toddler on up. I Remember holding A warren Zevon album in my little hands while my brother was telling me to put it down before he slugged me. I play Guitar too so like a lot of musicians I've a wide musical pallete

[Dr. Wood ?]

well I AM british, I am 61 yrs. old so My musical taste is very wide indeed..I understand your brother wanting to slug you...My tastes go from Sinatra to the smiths. via zeppelin and joni mitchell and then they take a detour through the pixies, lambchop and sibellius...

[Baby Ricochet]

So I broke into the Palace with a spung and a rusty spanner she said oh I know you and you can not sing I said that's nothing you should hear me play Piano. Morrissey was brilliant. Got hips like Cinderella must be having a good shame talking sweet about nothing cookie I think your TAME. Black Francis was great with the weird imagery. Doolitle ia on of my top 20 favorite CDS of all time. SO's the Slider by T-REX and Fun house by Iggy and the stooges

[Dr. Wood ?]

I love doolittle too....Black Francis, what a voice...And yeah, Morrisey the poet. I was into tyranasaurus rex before they morphed...some cracking songs there AND some terrific words.

[Baby Ricochet]

I know a bit of Tyranasaurus rex. Once upon the seas of Abysinnia, the wizard, Micky Finn on the Bongo's. Yeah Black Francis was great with the screaming with Kim deal doing background vocals. God they were a brilliant band. So was Joy Division if you know them

[Dr. Wood ?]

yup...i sure do...the list goes on and on and on

[Chris]

Humpty Dumpty - hell, so very few know how to fix themselves let alone someone else. Sorry man...

[Baby Ricochet]

HA! Thanx