11-25-2024, 10:26 AM
Weekly Calendar
It is a small rectangular
vinyl-plastic box
with seven elastomerically
self-hinged trap-doors
sealing its seven square wells
each molded and printed
with the abbreviated name
of a day of the week.
Inside each well
(except for today’s)
reside six pills of varied
shape, size, color
and alleged effect.
Fear not! Of the six
two are mere vitamins
one is baby aspirin
and of the other three
one’s for the heart
and the other two are not.
It is a small rectangular
vinyl-plastic box
with seven elastomerically
self-hinged trap-doors
sealing its seven square wells
each molded and printed
with the abbreviated name
of a day of the week.
Inside each well
(except for today’s)
reside six pills of varied
shape, size, color
and alleged effect.
Fear not! Of the six
two are mere vitamins
one is baby aspirin
and of the other three
one’s for the heart
and the other two are not.
Non-practicing atheist