Spanish Influenza
killed more people than WW I
lasted from 1918 through 1919
we lost five percent of the word population in four months
I am not sure how to compare the Covid-19 statistics with this
But surely someone out there does.
I will wait
A long time ago in a land far away
Lived a shy young fellow, quite awkward they say
So shy with the fillies
He pretended his willy
Had influenza and couldn't come out to play
A long time ago in a land far away
Lived a shy young fellow, quite awkward they say
So shy with the fillies
He pretended his willy
Had influenza and couldn't come out to play
A repost
It seems like I’m hit with a dose of flu
My skin feels so sensitive to the cold
It will run its course nowt else I can do
It's harder to shake off as you get old.
I feel I’m not here my head is away
Dosing my self with medical potions
Lemon drinks are the order of the day
With care I take in measured proportions.
Worst of all I've got no inspiration
Nothing coming in or out of my head
I'm in a state of mental stagnation
Feel like a zombie lying in this bed.
I sweated profusely throughout the night
Hope after six days I'll start to feel right.
Written 17th December 2018.
DO NOT READ IF YOU ARE OF A NERVOUS DISPOSITION.
Non of us are old enough to remember
the nineteen eighteen awful influenza,
this pandemic documented as bird flu
hundred years on could be me or you,
then over five hundred million perished
now it could be loved ones, our cherished,
since then our world has become smaller
are we ready for this unwelcome caller,
we have arrived at the influenza’s milestone
this will travel from time zone to time zone
this time we can rely on antibiotics and drugs
do we know if they will work on these bugs,
though we must live in hope so go out and grab
your essential free or expensive vaccination jab.
09/25/2018
scary or spooky contest.
sponsored by Tania Kitchin.
It’s a nasty disease.
Infection spreads by sneeze.
If you get it, you’ll wheeze.
Intense fever and chills,
Illness that sometimes kills.
Injected with vaccine,
Immunity is seen.
2/25/2017
For contest Pleiades I
Sponsored by Kim Merryman
A long time ago in a land far away
Lived a shy young fellow, quite awkward they say
So shy with the fillies
He pretended his willy
Had influenza and couldn't come out to play
IN-FLU-ENZA!
IN-FLEW-ENZA!
This was not my today's agenda,
Hankies for snuffles my addenda,
Here I rest, moribunda!
Wintry weather down under,
Suppose it is not so bad,
Bed rest to be had,
Not in the rat race,
Cosy bed today's place,
Definitely not my today's agenda,
IN-FLU-ENZA!
A long time ago in a land far away
Lived a shy young fellow, quite awkward they say
So shy with the fillies
He pretended his willy
Had influenza and couldn't come out to play
© Jack Ellison 2015
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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