medicated.

i take a medication for my seratonin levels. very soon, i'll be taking one for my sleep.
it's such a joke how easy it is in this country to complain of an ailment,
and two minutes later you're handing over your prescription at the pharmacy.
swallow those pills, those symptoms go away,
the illness abates,
you're chemically altered.



i don't like to take medicine unless i absolutely can't stand it anymore. i think that your body is reacting in the way it knows how, and medicine shouldn't be the catalyst to alter anything. two days ago i told my doctor down in san diego "i've been having trouble sleeping" and the next day a prescription of ambien was waiting for me. no questions asked like, "how long has this been going on? what's your schedule like?" nothing like that. how alarming.