Margaret Christakos

Key Brain Chemicals A Mixing Board (Static)

these drugs blunt emotions and/or
wired a mixing board to send

reduce obsessive-compulsive thinking but those
output back through channels producing feedback

are also two main characteristics
of almost unbearable if a little

of romantic love Dr Fisher
melodic high frequencies Another player rubbed

said in addition to the
a reed up and down over

obvious toll sexual side effects
a drumhead and the quivering vibrations

can take on a romantic
produced static which served as a

relationship the lack of key
low dodge-and-burn intensifier In a dumpy

brain chemicals involved in love
sent up a blooming whining metaphor

and long-term attachment aren’t released
of how my psyche has singed

all of this can make
and squealed yet made no sound

it tough to fall in
at all waiting and feeling the

love and stay in love
outer limits these past several months

while on an antidepressant said
Rather simultaneously exciting and too mundane

Andy Thomson staff psychiatrist one
for language's access Anyway New York

solution is to take an
I think it's very grey and

antidepressant that can be stopped
fallish outside like dusk like the

intermittently for drug holidays without
busride melancholy fills the body and

losing effectiveness Dr Thomson said
language spills into space like a

Forest Pharmaceutical’s Lexapro sometimes can
secret shimmer Why feel anything but

be stopped Friday and resumed
sometimes the thing itself feels its

Monday which increases the patient’s
way beyond the body like a

sexual interest on the weekends
semaphor from a border an empire--