Oh neurotic neurotransmitters <br />Why do you screw with me like you do? <br />Why do you make me so hardy to go to a party <br />Yet always leave me feeling blue <br /> <br />Oh dopamine such a dictator <br />Red robes rouse the masses <br />Yet in the end when the power is spent <br />Something snaps in the head <br />And the country is dead <br />Because of your genocide <br />Who will you rule <br />With whom will you side <br /> <br />Oh GABA seems so easy <br />So trustworthy and so smooth <br />Humphrey Bogart in drag <br />White tits start to sag <br />And suddenly you’ve lost the truth <br />GABA how can you rage <br />Inside a velvet cage <br />To never run free <br />Or swim in the sea <br />Oh GABA my friend <br />What have you done with the sun who was me <br /> <br />Serotonin the medicine man <br />Used to wander the fields of green <br />Dressed in a vest <br />Smoked cest with the rest <br />And lived in some homely teepee <br />I believe you could tell the future <br />Or see it beneath sanguine eyes <br />Till the white men came <br />With their gold and their shame <br />And wrinkled you with their lies <br /> <br />Norepinephrine a watchdog <br />Who sat on my front stoop <br />Shine teeth growled at sinners <br />White tricks for the winners <br />Jumped through a fiery hoop <br />Norepinephrine a watchdog <br />Eyes scanning slits in the head <br />Nose it would grow to sniff out the lows <br />Too faithful to lie in the bed <br />Norepinephrene a watchdog <br />Arthritis bones and grey <br />Eyes milked to brown <br />One day you fell down <br />And now you’re not here today <br /> <br />Oh neurotic neurotransmitters <br />Why do you screw with me like you do? <br />Why do you make me so hardy to go to a party <br />Yet always leave me feeling blue<br /><br />Robert Macdonald<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/neurotic-neurotransmitters/
