i match our ‘happy hormones’

to the trees of late september;

it makes their scientific names

less painful to remember.

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the yellow trees are dopamine,

the orange are serotonin,

the green ones are the endorphins,

and reds are oxytocin.

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repeat this once or twice a day,

and pretty soon you’ll see

that oftentimes a little rhyme

enhances memory.

–photo by me