Sunday, February 3, 2019

11,516. 'HELLUVALOTTA'

'HELLUVALOTTA'
It's going around; they breed fevers 
now like blisters in a stoneyard and 
people are falling in droves. Bad water? 
Something else? 'For so many years 
now we have lived in healthful peace,
except for the few short years of AIDS 
infections. Now, again, but this should
not be happening here. We are a finer
country than that.' Everyone seems off.
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Puzzled is not the word. The restlessness 
of new virus and fever is always invisible.
In sneaks in through conscious pores, and
takes your breath away : fever, soreness,
boils, blisters, and  -  the final indignity  - 
your own loss of control.
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Hold on to your spirit and soul.
Hold on to your spirit and soul.


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