Living in a Digitalis World

[Magpie]

Some people believe that the painter Van Gogh was at one point prescribed Digitalis, more commonly known as Foxglove, for the treatment of his epilepsy and that his famously striking 'Yellow/Halo Period' came about as a result of the side-effects experienced whilst taking it.

Intrigued, I ventured into the garden, ate some Foxglove leaves until I became...

Blooming mad, daft as a daffodil Doh!!
Loopy as a loopy lupin loopily looping.
Foxed by gloves, cross-crissing chrysanthemums,
lazy crazy daisies and pine trees pining for *sun.
Flowers weary of thyme who?
Count, test the steps of the wall.
Flour in big own ears bin owing hear.
Flowering Begonias been going here,
there and everywhere where they wear their hair
where every hare is there hair to wear.

Water!! Sun!! That's all I wish for.
What are some? Hat stall, Irish four.
I will flourish, flourish I will,
I will oh I will, I willow I will.

In the meantime it's goodbye garden, halo hospital.

The doctors assure me that with some tender love and care I should be out by spring.


*In a round about way is from the William Blake poem "Ah! Sun-flower" the first two lines of which read,  
"Ah, sunflower, weary of time,
Who countest the steps of the sun;"