Runner Up: Folderol

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      It’s fitting—this remedy’s alias sounds like a brand of prescription drug. Chantix, Lunesta,   Concerta. Paxil, Prozac, Zoloft. Folderol: a treatment   tactile (pen, page, word) and vapoury (word, spirit, vision). Write poem after flimsy poem. Guaranteed to harvest the meaningless refrain of your       symptoms—husking flurries, plunging seeds—with the     sickle of each poem’s meaningless refrain. Helps stem the outbreaks of trashitis, of treasurnoma’s coziness, prescribed by the geegaw of being. Side effects may include a stiff wrist, a trifling addiction, blinding           clouds of paper rising from the lines of fire you remit          to the fires lining you, tweaked neck, odd filenames. If feelings of wildness and devastation persist,

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Author photo credit to Katie Fewster-Yan.