11-30-2025, 01:27 AM
Exalteration
It steals critical faculties and leaves–
shorn of obnoxious, hard realities–
at most immunity to dentists’ pains,
unconsciousness some ways from final death.
In calculated doses it exalts
and leads its user to see Heaven lit
with welcome or some less religious Truth
if one’s normal perceptions tend that way.
At minimum it earns its common name
of “laughing gas” but leaves us wondering
if giggles under “whippit” influence
were witty when one’s wits were wandering.
It steals critical faculties and leaves–
shorn of obnoxious, hard realities–
at most immunity to dentists’ pains,
unconsciousness some ways from final death.
In calculated doses it exalts
and leads its user to see Heaven lit
with welcome or some less religious Truth
if one’s normal perceptions tend that way.
At minimum it earns its common name
of “laughing gas” but leaves us wondering
if giggles under “whippit” influence
were witty when one’s wits were wandering.
Non-practicing atheist