Reading Discover Magazine On Expired Zoloft

By Marc Darnell

The James Webb found the furthest galaxy, again.

The polar ice caps are dripping at my door.

I'm waiting for the war in my head to begin

its assault– my medications haven't kicked in,

but they will by the time I climb to the ledge, or

the James Webb finds another furthest galaxy again.

Space is expanding but my world is closing in–

I'm safest when I'm lifeless on the floor

as I'm waiting for the war in my head to begin

rumbling, and the nanobots to enter my skin,

designed to make me frozen to the core,

so when James Webb finds the furthest galaxy again

I'll feel nothing, no joy, no urge to sin.

Am I being a bother, an abominable attention whore,

saying I wait for the war in my head to begin?

It's nothing compared to the one we cannot win–

mastery over the nebulae of mind, as I wait for

the James Webb to find the furthest galaxy, again,

and the war in my head to begin.

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Marc Darnell is an online tutor and lead custodian in Omaha NE.  His latest books are Forecast: Increasing Visibility  (Kelsay Books 2024) and The Mining Muse (Impspired Books 2024).  He has 3 times been awarded an Academy of American Poets prize.  His book of poetry, Remnants Of Reason, is forthcoming from Kelsay Books.