November 3, 2009
Rah! Rah! La! La! Libriumland
Come sail away with me
across the sodium valproate sea
and we’ll go hand in hand
down Mogadon Memory Lane
to Libriumland
Cross verdant tranquilisier fields
picking Prozac pansies
we will skip and amble
past pristine Largactyl lambs
that carelessly gambol
Libriumland
is the land of jelly joy
for every smiling Cipramil girl and every betablocker boy.
Where life is celebrated
as though the citizens
are all intravenously opiated
In Happy Valium Valley
No one ever sighs
No one ever lies
No one ever cries
No one ever dies
Everyone always has enough food
and the news is always good
No one would ever leave
even if they could
if and you aren’t permanently ecstatic
then you maybe should.
Across every face a grin beams,
all is great,
or so it seems.
But here the world view is artificial
and the contentment superficial.
No one learned the lesson
of the ostrich and the sand
‘Abandone ye all reason
ye who enter Valiumland!’
Where they are being blinded by the light
and have no dark to contrast the white
and without the bad they know no happiness
because without contentment there is no stress
and with no harm there is no pain
and no mechanism to stop you coming back again
again
again
like a goldfish insane
when you put your hand into a flame.
Eventually reality creeps through
the cracks in the emotional damn
and all too late the Libriumites
learn to spit their dummies
from their prams
and balanced rational thoughts
rain down like incoming mortar.
The epiphany they have long blocked
they aren’t blessed babes in cots
but fettered lambs to the slaughter
to be released from here only by captive bolt
a gush of blood through the nose
a final shuddering jolt;
hung, drawn and quartered,
sliced then diced,
connective tissue becoming cat meat.
All of which could have been averted
if a simple truth had not been perverted:
Life can never be complete
without the sour to complement the sweet
Happy Ending.
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P.S. I have had personal experience of some of these medications, so take my use of them as being metaphorical rather than factual representations of how they effect people.
