June 2024
Author's Note: I wrote this poem as a personal challenge to submit to One Sentence Poems. I wanted to see if I could actually write a poem in one sentence that made sense and wasn't too short or too long. It was published and I was pleased.
Detox
Through a dense fog, I hear someone
explaining to me repeatedly
how the stockpile of microenzymes
I have built up over the past ten years
will be depleted in five days
while the staff ply me
with Perrier and Imodium
ad nauseum.
Originally published in One Sentence Poems
©2024 j.lewis
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