Cook Book Medicine

Lotions, potions, pills, devotions,

heirarchy of strangest notions,

lauded yet, through word of mouth,

espoused or choked, by girdled truth.

Cinctured in empiric patent

designed to extend malcontent

in Simples, Tinctures, or extent

of common sense, or extant

historic use.

Jungles, hillsides, cottage gardens;

you would raze for crude examples

for your new laboratory,

then isolate, for oratory

with powerpoint or learned paper,

a phytopowered healthwise taper

lighting where we've been before,

launching to a different shore...

where,

stockades in place, you'd shout your wares,

building empires in stocks and shares,

'You too, can have what once was yours,

had you learned to love the land."