The Prescription

(Dedicated to Dr Anthony Daniels)

The Doctor
He says to me
I wish to God
You’d go to sleep
For eternity
So he prescribes
Something to end
My troublesome
Malady

‘Take ten thousand
Temazepam and lie down
And sleep deep
For the rest
Of the century

Alternatively,
And preferably
For me, take twenty
Thousand and lie down
For a millennium or two