[Newspoetry] PROZAC SONG, draft two

[Joe Futrelle]

BTW, for any newspoet who's online and stuck for a rhyme, here's an
online rhyming dictionary:

http://www.rhymezone.com/

It's not perfect; for instance it would never come up with "Gulf" and
"my-sulf"!

On Wed, May 23, 2001 at 09:03:28PM -0700, Anora Johnson wrote:
> greetings newspoets:
> 
> here's a second draft of "The Prozac Song," which i
> think makes it clear that in each case the drug is
> being prescribed inappropriately, and that the war
> veteran and the computer tech both have more fitting
> solutions to propose for their respective problems.
> 
> special thanks to anora johnson for playing the role
> of human rhyming dictionary and for editorial input.
> and thanks to the editors for challenging me to a
> re-write.  i think the song is better (i.e., funnier
> and more pertinent) now than it was this morning.
> 
> **********************
> The Prozac Song
> 
> <ital>To the tune of "My Bonny (Lies Over the Ocean)."
>  Inspired by "The Soup Song," of the early 1930's,
> which was, of course, about a different kind of
> Depression.</ital>
> 
> It started when I was in high school:
> I was feeling confused and depressed.
> I went to see my guidance couns'llor
> To ask her what she would suggest.  She said:
> 
> CHORUS	"Prozac!  Prozac!
> 	--It's what the physicians prescribed for me.
> 	Prozac!  Prozac!
> 	For ev'rything from A to Z!"
> 
> They sent me to war in Grenada,
> They sent me to war in the Gulf,
> And when I got home from the service,
> I wasn't quite feeling my-sulf.  Now,...
> 
> CHORUS	For some folks, Prozac's
> 	A true therapeutic necessity,
> 	But I don't need Prozac.
> 	I need a cure for the toxins they put in me!
> 
> I spend ninety minutes commuting
> each way from VA to D. C.,
> and after twelve hours of computing,
> I just sit home and stare at T. V.
> 
> CHORUS	Prozac!  Prozac!
> 	They wanna PRO-zac me into complicity,
> 	But I don't need Prozac.
> 	I need a job in my vic-in-i-TY!
> 
> So I ask of the major drug-makers,
> Eli Lily and all of the rest,
> With the state of the world so depressing, 
> Is it better that we stay O-ppressed?
> 
> CHORUS	Prozac!  Prozac!
> 	For ev-er-y post-modern malady.
> 	They've re-named Prozac,
> 	Just so ya can't make it gen-er-ic-'lly
> [finale]	(It's a big scam
> 		If ya ask me.) 
> 
> --Paul Kotheimer, for Associated Poets and Serious
> Folking Music
> 
> =====
> Condemnation does not liberate; it oppresses. In order to change something, one much first accept it.
> - Carl Gustav Jung
> 
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