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How To Catch a Cold

How To Catch A Cold Wait until nightfall When all is quiet And you are alone in your room With the cold Sneak up on it In the dark With a Sherman tank Don’t make a sound! Take a sling filled with aspirin Without noise Prepare the walls with vapor-rub and love As you move slowly around the room Slip a pill down its throat Pray that it stays there While you lift it lightly Into a box marked for colds

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Skat A

Date: 4/30/2014 9:12:00 PM

EARL, this is a sweet win:) Congratulations, <3 always ~SKAT~ <3

Earl Schumacker
Date: 5/1/2014 8:17:00 AM

Thanks SKAT. My poems are like my children. I send them out in the world to stand on their own merits. Some try to be good. Others require more shaping. As you can see, this one caught a cold. (I try not to feed them too much pen & ink for fear they might become...addictive...) Earl

Poet Destroyer A

Date: 4/26/2014 1:16:00 AM

Earl, , stopping by a second and third time, this time to congratulate you awesome win:) Thank you so much for bearing out my contest. If you like, -stop by my latest blog "LOVE" Enjoy the tiny tribute to all the winning poems. Here's the link, just in case you're one of the new poets. http://www.poetrysoup.com/poems_poets/poem_detail.aspx?ID=556582 ***Always & Forever*** -LINDA

Earl Schumacker
Date: 4/26/2014 6:26:00 AM

Thank You so much Linda! Earl

Larry Berdoo

Date: 4/12/2014 2:57:00 PM

Earl thats original; prepare the walls with vapor-rub, Excellent!

Earl Schumacker
Date: 5/1/2014 8:22:00 AM

Hi Larry. I'm sorry I'm getting back to you late. In the beginning I didn't know that I could respond back to readers. I'm just finding out. Thank you so much for your kind words. I am deeply appreciative. Regards, Earl