Influenza Stanza
A rippling of shivered skin
Convulsing tides of sweat
Induced spasms of chaotic
Visions of cataclysmic madness
Choking down pharmaceutical
Faith in medicinal fists, full
Of killers
Of pain
Where writhing in torsions of hotness
Lapse fleetingly into delicious
Snatches of delusional sleep and
Dream; among corpses of influenza victims
Laid bare by blinding
Headaches splitting
Muscle mucus into
Coughing fits of
Laughter why me
To peel apart the cocoon
Of a drug sloughed illness
Where the silhouette of humanity
Sings your recovery
Over a beaten body
28 August 2014
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