Tossing the various pills on black marble counter, throwing bones like a sangoma or inyanga
Western medical treating symptoms, Eastern divinity, there are no cures
Heart condition at age thirty living with it, this cardiac cocktail every morning
Blood pressure, rhythm, deteriorating arterial linings—fighting back black buzzard hearse
Thoughts—debris that can clog dam blood rivers, set free life with these pleasures, women
Booze—feeding pagan desires—distractions from facing the darkness