Wednesday, April 12, 2023

a medical mystery

it's a medical mystery
how he's
survived this long.
at 95 he's alert
and out and about,
with a vigorous
sex life, despite years
of drinking and smoking
and living off
pork rinds and strawberry
ice cream.
he attributes it to supplements,
which fill his medicine
cabinet, and lying out
in the sun for six hours
a day with coconut
oil lathered all over him.
he doesn't say he's lucky,
or it's genes, or that God
has blessed him
with a long life,
he just says it's pills
and sunlight, blondes,
brunettes and redheads,
strawberry ice cream.

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