In The Water

I said to a lady at work

who is

not quite a friend

but  more than an acquaintance

that I don’t know why we can’t all just take drugs everyday

in moderation and in managed doses, of course

and she was telling me how when she was sick

and her marriage broke up

her doctor said that he thought anti-depressants should be in the water

I read an article once that said

when they tested the waste water of various large cities

around the world

there were significant amounts of cocaine and pharmaceuticals present

and another article, if I recall, talked about the amount of anti-anxiety medication in the ocean

released from sewerage treatment plants

and the effect it had on the fish