And These Drugs

On graphs, as lines drive

Upward and out of

The frame to show us

Just how much cash the

Drug companies earn,

Shouting sadists call

For the government

To control. They shriek

That prices that go

Up by more than the

Ten thousand percent

Mark must be curtailed.

Such companies ought

To not kowtow to

The vicious demands

Of “public interest,”

As if that meant gold.

Pharmacology

Calls for the best minds

To administer

Drugs which improve the

Lives of millions. If

A company seeks

To increase the price

Of a drug, then that

Is their right and they

Ought not be bothered.