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