Fez Monkey Press ~ Wisconsin
(Jessica Poor)

The Pharmacy of Crippling Hope
By Jessica Poor
Milwaukee, Wisconsin: Fez Monkey Press, 2007. Edition of 60.

2.25" diameter x 4. 1" circular plastic pill container with childproof cap containing 40+ capsules. Each capsule is transparent and contains a few words that apparently describes what that pill will effect. Colophon tipped on top of cap.

A grim production, without the saving humor of irony. These nostrums, like "Look directly at the sun," call into question our pill-taking society. But when viewed in light of the instructions and cautions on the bottle suggest a fatalistic attitude that borders on pessimism: "Take as many pills as you want, you are still going to die."
$50