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1.19.2026 7:00 AM

So Much For Pills by Bruce Reisner

So Much For Pills

The Jungle man suffered much
The family
Trick or treating in their Subaru batman outfits
prozacly, prozac, pre-zactly
Other meds coalescing
Marching, marching, marching
They get bugs
Crabs
Coursing sidewalks all thousands
One silverfish
The kind of lice that bites you thrice
Feet hammer asphalt
Arches drop like steel bridge mechanics with pain
Marching, marching
Zoloft kmart, not this time, more clozapine
Lobotomy is the name of a hot latin lover
Her castanets enslaving his poor sick corpus
Slow death in the hospital
Invisible Bolshoi Ballet
An incorporeal Leonard Bernstein conducting
West Side Story in the language of outer space creatures
A beach blanket drama in California
Subtitles for one celled cineasts on rings of Saturn
Swimming like Tarzan
Arms, back, shoulders and interstices
Trying to bargain with the Atlantic Ocean
An illusory giant Marvin Hamlisch
Tips his hand
Goes under
Tarzan’s entire family
Apes and rhinos included
Are there
Camped near
Cooking trout
On a Hesperus jetsam fire
Tarzan’s distinguished, otiose mom and dad
Back from the dead
Beam at their son, Tarzan

ABOUT THE ARTIST

Bruce Reisner is an artist/writer living in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. His poems, short fiction and visual art have been seen in Pittsburgh Post Gazette, Sledgehammer Magazine, Readthisplease (an anthology) and the Ranfurly Review.