The Tuesday Poem: Refeaturing Glenn Colquhoun’s “She asked me if she took one pill … ”

She asked me if she took one pill for her

heart and one pill for her hips and one pill

for her chest and one pill for her blood

how come they would all know which part

of her body they should go to

I explained to her that active metabolites in each

pharmaceutical would adopt a spatial configuration

leading to an exact interface with receptor molecules

on the cellular surfaces of the target structures

involved.

She told me not to bullshit her.

I told her that each pill had a different shape and that

each...