The Codger’s Lament

This eponymous offering is based on fact with a large dollop of poetic licence.

The Codger’s Lament

I take my multivitamins
I take my Lycomate
I take my dose of aspirin
And the one whose taste I hate.

There’s a white one for my cartilage,
A red one for my heart,
A brown one, not sure what it’s for
But it don’t half make me fart.

I’ve a yellow one for tummy aches,
A purple one for bones,
An orange one for bits that creak
And other dodgy zones.

There’s a pinkish liquid potion
which I take by teat pipette,
And some multi-coloured capsules
That stop my urge to fret.

The big ones send me off to sleep
The small ones make me holler
But never mind what size they are
They all gets hard to swaller.

There’s one I take six times a day
So this I do and yet,
I can’t remember why, Oh Yeah!
To help me not forget.

See, watch out tum here comes another
Swallow chew or suck it
I haven’t got a pillbox, me
I has to use a bucket!

I’ve a green one for my liver
And some pills to help me see
I’m not a human being
I’m a walking pharmacy.

So when you finally cart me off
And with my coffin you are battling
Don’t fret if you hear something strange,
It’s only me, a-rattling!