the lithium club

we need to live through this
live over this
live under this
live because of this
enough of this addiction
to swinging from heaven to Cleveland
hosannas to the salt salvation!!!

these mauve capsules
as cute as bugs without legs
dissolve in our reflux, their contents
seep into our stomach lining
are picked up by the blood industry
are carried to our craniums
persuade our brain biochemistry

and after all, they simply mimic
what is already hidden in our hearts,
what lies suffocating beneath mounds
of congealed rage, shame and grief

translate new hope
into neural transmissions
simultaneously electronic and organic

and psychic blips of bliss
sweep over the airwaves
to be picked up by the animals
by the sensitive, the innocent
by aliens and the ozone
reversing what the normals have done
to the world
the normals, with their petroleum
their pollution, their sanity