It's hard for us to swallow that
life isn't what it is in the movies.
We turn bitter as pills when
people we love don't love us back
and no amount of cough syrup
consumed
can make it better.
All the MRI's are useless
because they can't tell why
our bones feel so heavy
and an open-heart surgery reveals
that we have a heart
but we can't feel it beating.
All this-- all of us
are drowning in
translucent anodyne.
