Base Logic [RUI] - The Wellbutrin Song

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Christopher

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Purgatorial Incarceration

0 posted 2004-01-09 11:18 AM

Base Logic [RUI] - The Wellbutrin Song
©2004 C.G. Ward

thus it begins,
b a c k   t h e   b r a i n . . .
    I
    hear --

voices calling out the quote:
    "chemically imbalanced."

     ~off yer' rocker boyo,
        just bloody / … / loony!~

a technical definition, that,
        - you know -
leading to an acronymatic descriptive,
a summary for the cure to mental cancers.

  - inhibit
         the
            reuptake -

RUI, RUI, RUI.

defined, delimited, dismissed.
filed away in the sanitized safety
  of a statistical ocean;
sanity bookmarked, dog-tagged, and forgotten…

RUI, RUI, RUI.

----------------------
----------------------

world's gone awry, m'friend.
betcha Orson Wells
couldn't have scripted better
than your busted cerebellum.

----------------------
----------------------

so,
wherin lies the balance of a broken mind
a broken life
a broken -
                  heart?

and,
can you find a way to inhibit that?

at the least,
unihibit my reuptake
so I can live in a made up world
without this empty soul.

RUI, RUI, Ru…

Sunshine

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1 posted 2004-01-09 11:24 AM

Having a daughter
who is chemically imbalanced
and suffers from Bipolar syndrome...
this made more sense
than you may ever know. The chant of
RUI RUI RUI...
lent well to your poem.

Thank you Christopher.

serenity blaze
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2 posted 2004-01-09 11:29 AM

GEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEZ Christopher...

I'm gonna have to come back to this one.

For now it's all I can do to get the mantra of RUI RUI RUI outta my head.

Thanks alot.

("This IS on the money" argues one of the voices in serenity's head...)

but for now? it's enough to know that Martha Stewart just demonstrated T'ai Chi on the tube, and if Martha is in search of serenity?

I'm OUTTA here.

brb.

Gonna raise the drawbridge.

"I told ya when I met you I was crazy--
cry for us all, Beauty.
Cry for Eddie in the corner
thinking he's nobody--
and Jack behind his Joker
and stone-cold Grace behind her fan
and me in my frightened silence
thinking I don't understand..."

Joni Mitchell
People's Parties

sigh.

Now who's crazy?

Much Enjoyed.

Terrina
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3 posted 2004-01-09 12:43 PM

This was great. I've read it and re read it, and I'm convinced that we were made for each other.

passing shadows
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4 posted 2004-01-09 12:54 PM

yeah, wow

Susan Caldwell
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5 posted 2004-01-09 01:09 PM

Sanity...

Unbalanced...

hmmm...

I often wonder if the ones labeled such are really just the ones trying to making sense of the world...

I have my days as well...

And the ones that have been given the "label" always make more sense to me..

Can you tell I enjoyed this muchly?

"if you won't let me fall for you
then you won't see the best that I would love to do for you"
~Dido~

LngJhnAg
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6 posted 2004-01-09 01:30 PM

But Welbutrin doesn't have sexual side effects!

Your poem was great, Christopher.

Mysteria

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7 posted 2004-01-09 02:35 PM

You know Chris, this I found so sad, because it was all too true. We chant, SSRI up here for a better life through chemicals, and yes it does increase the quality of life for those depressed or with mood disorders, but it does indeed somehow empty the soul eventually, until the next miracle comes along in a vicious cycle. Too bad there was not a meter for these drugs to know when enough is more than enough.

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8 posted 2004-01-10 12:54 PM

This is one of your best. Because you dare to open up yourself to expose what most people think should be hidden. You are a wonderful guy...talented..charming(!) and kind. There is no imbalance in your heart!

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9 posted 2004-01-10 01:30 AM

nothing wrong with your soul, Christopher, and this soulful write proves that

GG
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10 posted 2004-01-10 02:03 AM

honest, good!
...I think its those pills that ruined me.
I don't talk to that doctor anymore.

Always, Alyssa

He was a man of sorrows
...I am a girl of tears.

harash
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11 posted 2004-01-10 02:11 AM

definitely its a poem to meet again and again...a lovely write...

always harash

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12 posted 2004-01-10 04:46 PM

I'm back.

Back to the top with this, C.

I'd love to see you do a series--you quite deftly illustrated the pain of a misunderstood condition without tugging emotional triggers or resorting to cliche'.

I confess I was a little startled too, because knowing you as a "level" sorta guy, the accuracy of this made me wonder...smile.

More like this please?

Excellent work.

Christopher

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13 posted 2004-01-12 10:21 AM

Thank you all for your feedback and appreciation. I appreciate that appreciation.

I may be a "level" kinda guy (though i believe many might argue that label), but that doesn't mean i don't see, or understand. I doubt there's many in this world that have had a smooth ride the whole way through. we, all of us, at one time or another, slip into the darkness.

as for a "series," k, i'd already considered something like that, but would be hesitant to say "yes, i will" as time is hard to come by these days. thank you, however, for the suggestion - you never know.

husgs around.

Chris

Duncan
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14 posted 2004-01-21 07:13 PM

Unrelated of course, but I now have that little kids voice from "The Shining" repeating in my head,
"R E D R U M".

Serotonin...breakfast of champions!!!
This poem could be a mantra for much of the population these days, huh?? Hope ya don't mind, I know a therapist who'd really appreciate your take on this, thought I'd send her a copy.
Nice job on this C...as always!!