POETRY

Snake Oil

Hoping this doesn’t remain current events for long

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Note: Below the poem is an audio clip of the author reading the poem.

He sells a prescription,
a medical fiction
that can’t really cure our ills.

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Paul H. Harder II

Poet, software engineer, Ph.D. meteorologist, husband, father, grandfather.