14.Courtesy of Marguerite Perret and Bruce Scherting.

Elavil, Ludiomil, Doxepin,
Norpramin, Prozac, Lithium, Xanax,
Wellbutrin, Parnate, Nardil, Zoloft.
The coated ones smell sweet or have no smell; the powdery ones smell like the chemistry lab at school that make me hold my breath.

Jane Kenyon
from, Having it out with Melancholy,
1996

The Drug Clerk

Here dwells the substance of huge fervid dreams, Fantastic, many-colored, shot with gleams
Of ecstasy and madness, that shall come
To some pale, twitching sleeper in a bunk.
And here is courage, sheaply bought
To cure a blue sick funk,
And dearly paid for in the final sum.

Eunice Tietjens (1885-1944)

15.Courtesy of Marguerite Perret and Bruce Scherting.