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 come 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,
that we all drink from the same waters,
need to see Dr. Harding
and would benefit greatly from reading
the same magazines.