Ode to the Vitamin Dish
Submission for Ode to the Ordinary Competition, 2023
Every morning when I awake
I fill my dish with pills to take:
Iron, Zinc, B12, and Vitamin C
Are all the things I know will help me.
Pills, Capsules, and gummies too
To take all at once or stop and chew.
Upon the dish is a small phrase
On it every morning I gaze.
"Dream Big" it tells me now
Leaving me to wonder "How?"
Tired, anxious, depressed every day
Will my dreams ever come to stay?
The dish isn't big enough to hold all my dreams
But does contain the energy I need to scheme.
I take my vitamins one by one
Until in the dish there are none.
About the Creator
Sarah Massey
Sarah is an animator and short film director at the birthplace of Route 66 Springfield, Missouri. A graduate of Drury University in the class of 2020, Sarah is published two fiction short stories in Drury’s Literary Magazine, Currents.
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B. A. Durham’s False Memories blends dream and reality in a seamless mix. As his father, afflicted by Alzheimer’s, fades away, the narrator is haunted by a dream that may be a memory, returning to him insistently. The piece is full of wonderful detail (the father touching his lip where once there was a mustache, “but now he is clean-shaven—he has been for years” — and moving in revealing the complexities of a family’s life. A worthy winner which shows the power of dreams to influence us.
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This was an amazing entry! 🥹