Gout

If there was a fountain 
that would cure all, 
but to someone else 
my illness would fall, 
knowing full well, 
under God’s eye, 
I would plunge my foot in 
and shout at the sky, 
“what eternal damnation 
greater can be?
And besides, I’m sure someone 
used this fountain on me.”
Copyright © | Year Posted 2017

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November 12, 2017 at 7:34 AM
I know some people with this problem, it is awful thing to have..
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