Ode to Bupropion
Nina Clements
Oh, bupropion, you culprit
of small disasters, little shames.
The woman with the shaking
hands
​
should not pour the wine
or empty the can of crushed
tomatoes into the hot pot of oil and
onions—
​
how you loved that fresh tomato
sauce. You have ruined so many
sleeves with your spilt wine from small
plastic cups, so flimsy.
Wine like rain, splashed
on mere acquaintances.
It is the tax for getting out
of bed most of the time.
Oh drug, old lover,
you are not always
so steady
in your effects.
Nina Clements earned an MFA from Sarah Lawrence College. She is the author of the chapbook Set the Table, published by Finishing Line Press, and the poetry collection Our Mother of Sorrows, published by Urban Farmhouse Press. Originally from Pittsburgh, she works as a librarian in Madison, Wisconsin.
Mario Loprete is an Italian artist who studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Catanzaro. His Concrete Sculptures series makes use of personal clothing. Imbued within the works, his memory and his DNA activate within the viewer a mode of postmodern archeology that transforms his pieces into urban artifacts.