Best Leprosy Poems

sanguineous leprosy you have come
 for me at last.

 pity the small things.

fingernail feelings...

i had no need for them in the fourth 
grade at ellsworth elementary. 

 blood in the principals office,
 blood in the hallway.

returning home off the bus down the
 gravel road the...

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my seed came to me 
with a bump on his face 
and ask why we both 
had the same on our faces
and why it had showed up 
over night?

lie to the child 
lie for heavens place 
lie, and never tell 
him the truth of hate

spin...

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Leprosy  

Foolhardy blight that languishes in a musosal drop
Transmitted to the genetically predisposed
That causes dermal cells to mutate
With its tubercle relative to sympathize
Slow surface lesions manifest
And the host begins to realize
Its ancient punishment from the gods
Singled out to be excluded
In colonies for those alike
As...

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