My meds alarm

disrupts pub chat.

disrupts pub chat.
My new friend asks
so I tell him.
Was it in the Guardian?
Fish behaviour is changing.
Guppies, they agree.
There's so much prozac
in the waterways now.
No judgement.
Relaxed guppies.
It makes me want to cry.
But, of course, I can't.

About the author

Ewen Glass (he/him) is a screenwriter and poet from Northern Ireland who lives with two dogs, a tortoise and lots of self-doubt; his poetry has appeared or is forthcoming in Okay Donkey, HAD, Poetry Scotland, Roi Fainéant, Bridge Eight and elsewhere.