{"id":25827,"date":"2014-06-03T06:30:32","date_gmt":"2014-06-02T18:30:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/?p=25827"},"modified":"2014-06-02T18:08:09","modified_gmt":"2014-06-02T06:08:09","slug":"the-tuesday-poem-refeaturing-glenn-colquhouns-she-asked-me-if-she-took-one-pill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2014\/06\/03\/the-tuesday-poem-refeaturing-glenn-colquhouns-she-asked-me-if-she-took-one-pill\/","title":{"rendered":"The Tuesday Poem: Refeaturing Glenn Colquhoun’s “She asked me if she took one pill \u2026 \u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"

She asked me if she took one pill for her
\nheart and one pill for her hips and one pill
\nfor her chest and one pill for her blood
\nhow come they would all know which part
\nof her body they should go to<\/strong><\/p>\n

I explained to her that active metabolites in each
\npharmaceutical would adopt a spatial configuration
\nleading to an exact interface with receptor molecules
\non the cellular surfaces of the target structures
\ninvolved.<\/p>\n

She told me not to bullshit her.<\/p>\n

I told her that each pill had a different shape and that
\neach part of her body had a different shape and that
\nher pills could only work when both these shapes could
\nfit together.<\/p>\n

She said I had no right to talk about the shape of her
\nbody.<\/p>\n

I said that each pill was a key and that her body was
\nten thousand locks.<\/p>\n

She said she wasn\u2019t going to swallow that.<\/p>\n

I told her that they worked by magic.<\/p>\n

She asked me why I didn\u2019t say that in the first place.
\n.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a9 Glenn Colquhoun<\/p>\n

Published in Playing God<\/strong><\/em>, Steele Roberts, 2002
\nReproduced here with permission.<\/p>\n

\u2014<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>As I posted on Saturday 17<\/a>, I am currently refeaturing Tuesday Poems from the past four years \u201cby poet\u201d, i.e. focusing on those instances where I\u2019ve featured more than one poem by the same poet. I am also doing so alphabetically (by surname), which makes the current poet Glenn Colquhoun.<\/p>\n

I love this poem and wrote a detailed commentary for it in 2011 when it first featured. To check out the commentary and Glenn Colquhoun’s bio, please click on:<\/p>\n

\u201cShe asked me if she took one pill \u2026 \u201d, 2011<\/a><\/h3>\n

—<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>To check out the featured poem on the Tuesday Poem Hub<\/strong> and other great poems from fellow Tuesday poets from around the world, click here<\/strong><\/a> or on the Quill<\/strong> icon <\/strong>in the sidebar.<\/p>\n

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