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Poetry Vs. the Flu

My head is stuffed, my brain is fried and still the poems wait inside, They leak out of my eyes and ears and laugh at me with grumpy jeers. I am a wreck, I feel so sick and still the poems leak and stick. They glue me to the creaky chair until I write them in the air and freeze them down, forever be, persistent friends, my poetry...

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