eight cups a day

I’m reading this magazine article

on the end-table in the doctor’s waiting room

that compares ‘universal consciousness’

to drops of water that form together to create a lake.

Once in the examination room the doc explains that

all 6.7 billion assholes should drink eight cups a day

to maintain true health.

I assume the most efficient way to accomplish this

would be one every two hours that I’m awake.

Set the cell phone alarm, make it spring or bottled, not tap.

Or wait , better to ladle it from that ‘lake of drops’.

Let those cups come together and forge a new me

with a social conscience, maybe even a desire to vote.

As the therapy grows and becomes the rage

we will all come to realize that we’re more than

dehydrated egos, devouring and pushing things

inside these ugly bags of skin

and that we all drink from the same waters,

need to see Dr. Harding and would benefit greatly

from reading the same magazines.