Saturday, August 31, 2013

Flu Bug

Flu.
Flux, quick change from
being well to being sick.
Fluids, drink a lot of those
so as to unstop nose and prevent
dehydration.
Fluency, affected by the raspy voice
that's not my choice,
a tonal devastation.
Flugelhorn, a funny word and slang
for something so absurd it brought
on coughing fit.
Fluffy tissues, fluffy sheets,
fluffy sheep I count
as I go back to sleep,
fluttering eyelids dream
of superfluous flutes and
affluence, for when
you have the flu,
it's almost all that
comes to mind.


(c) Ellen Gillette, 2013

Two doses of azithromycin, and I see the light at the other end of the tunnel. Unless I'm dying, and the light means something else.

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