Pain

[Achebe]

You’ll soon be cured with this placebo pill –
it’s only affluenza.  Here’s your bill.

It's paid for by Medicare
some clueless wanker pays the invoice
for M. Munchausen, stripped bare
for a prostrate exam, entirely his choice,
because after ten whiskies out on the Coral sea
under the summer sun, he finds that he can't pee.

I was looking at my taxes, and found that most of it
goes to paying a politician's choice of tit
bought at an unregulated bordello.
Poor fellow - 
not he, me
(don't be a pill and say it should be 'I' - 
save Munchausen, he thinks he's about to die).