Purple Pill

Written By Tejaswinee Roychowdhury

Faith is the bluest pill.

Nihilism is the reddest.

I like my pills purple,

so I can love deeply and

hypothesize catastrophe, 

all at once. 


Note: The blue pill, red pill is a reference to The Matrix.

Tejaswinee Roychowdhury is a Pushcart-nominated writer-poet from India. Her poetry is in Black Bough, Copihue Poetry, The Bayou Review, Dreich, Paddler Press, The Chakkar, and more. Her fiction is in Muse India, Fiery Scribe, and others. She is the founding editor of The Hooghly Review and a lawyer. Twitter: @TejaswineeRC. 

Tejaswinee Roychowdhury

Tejaswinee Roychowdhury is a Pushcart-nominated writer-poet from India. Her poetry is in Black Bough, Copihue Poetry, The Bayou Review, Dreich, Paddler Press, The Chakkar, and more. Her fiction is in Muse India, Fiery Scribe, and others. She is the founding editor of The Hooghly Review and a lawyer. Twitter: @TejaswineeRC. 

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