Some Tips On Growing and Consuming St. John’s Wort:

1. Pent-up spite from strangers in blue,
   blood clots too quickly to cause any further damage.

2. Wander into known transcriptions
   of Rilke and Borges, all the while
   staying ignorant about works
   from the motherland, like Rao and Karnad.

3. Madness, 
   dilated pupils,
   pink sclera,
   induced migraine,
   that random
   bruise on your thigh.

4. Intravenous line scar on your right wrist. 

5. Lobotomic propensities. 

6. Seeds sown into land
   where the military tested radioactive
   armaments of destruction (Hoonah, AK).
   
   

7. Wait 3-4 days after ingestion
   and stare at the tattered motel wallpaper in the meantime. 

What do you see?