Medication

 Thank you again Gillian for this one!

MEDICATION   -   MEDICATION   -   MEDICATION         

An election plea to support the pill,
pills, pills, wonderful pills.
What a palliative for most of our ills.
From Holt to Devizes they’re in all shapes and sizes.
For complaints of every description
chances are you will get a prescription
for pills, wonderful pills.

In this period of medical dearth,
and all are promising the earth
of the future we can only guess, but spare us
from recruiting Spin Doctors for the N.H.S.

Let’s not be carried away by statistics,
instead be simply more realistic.
Please bring a Bill to keep the pill.
Let the election winners select a pill,
and have it made in the Party’s colours.
This would signify Victor Ludorum for the term,
and it would inspire the others.
To show a link with business too, by agreement by the parties,
they might negotiate a profitable sponsorship with Smarties!

 But for us old run-of-the-mills, just remember the drill.
Whether it’s wind or indigestion, or that sort of symptom
there’s likely to be a suitable pill.
So look on the bright side, that’s half of the battle.
But don’t jump for joy – you might rattle!

 Frank L Ashen

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