Cinnamon Woes
When for my yearly physical I went to see my doc,
two cinnamon pills daily were prescribed to me ad hoc.
I had a premonition this solution wouldn’t work,
for prescribing condiments seemed nothing but a quirk.
With no other suggestions, she had me in a bind.
High cholesterol’s no joke. I knew I had to mind.
I put it off ’til evening for it seemed to me so odd
to buy the stuff in capsules to put into my bod.
I took one before bedtime and it caught up in my throat.
The gelatin slowly dissolved. The spice began to bloat.
I had cinnamon reflux. Then I had cinnamon burps.
I swallowed and I swallowed and took water in four slurps.
I coughed three times and tasted cinnamon each time.
I savored not its flavor. Its taste was not sublime.
That throat lump then descended. The pain was near my heart.
Then suddenly that cinnamon was expelled in a fart.
The jar of cinnamon capsules is huge and fully filled.
Tomorrow morn at breakfast, again I should be pilled.
But though I’m not the type to go against the status quo,
from now on I’ll take cinnamon with sugar, rolled in dough.
This is a rewrite. Image downloaded from the internet. The prompt today was premonition.
lifelessons - a blog by Judy Dykstra-Brown 
Goodness, you can write a poem about anything! Such talent!
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Hahaha — the things we do to maintain our health. I’ve not heard of cinnamon pills, though — sounds better than statins!
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One comment, though, that you might think about. I would take out “four” before slurps. Sometimes little fibs of omission give us such joy. That’s just me, and you are the poet on this one, so. .. . Good work.
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You have me laughing… well done.
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The breadth of topics in your poetry is astounding.
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Brilliant! 🙂
As for the last line though – that may be somewhat self-defeating?
Might i suggest cinnamon powder and honey on buttered wholemeal toast as an alternative?. 🙂
( Apparently scientists have now found that the cholesterol in butter is not bad for you as they previously believed! And that the sugar in honey, or just the honey, has health benefits too!)
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Yes.. that last line was hyperbole..written merely for its comic effect.
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I ceeeeeeeee……
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Not that I wouldn’t enjoy an occasional cinnamon roll!
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Makes 2 of us 🙂
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