All American Superstore Pharmacy
You know you’re in America when
The pharmacist asks if you’d like
To purchase your frozen burrito, chewing gum, and box of cheap wine
At the pharmacy counter.
It’s convenient, to be sure,
But isn’t it odd?
The person counting your pills,
Who’s prepared to discuss side effects and contraindications,
Is more likely to scan barcodes for candy bars
Than talk trazodone
And explain why, despite many modern conveniences,
You still have to cut your pills in half.
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Sara Cosgrove is an award-winning journalist and emerging poet. Her poems have appeared or are scheduled to appear in The Seventh Quarry, Meniscus, Notre Dame Review, San Antonio Review, Osiris, and Roi Fainéant. She has worked as an editor for 15 years and has studied in the United States, Cuba, and France.
It’s odd for sure… but oddness is a pallor fading in the light of convenience
This is awful.