Ode to the Flu
Kennet Benoît-Hutchins 1952 (Snowdon, Montreal, QC)
I awaken to mucus muttering
A sinus echo of heartbeats
Sleep eludes the fatigue
Royale tasked agents fail
Spittle production increases
Drip echo drip echo drip
This war, ware, this war
Ban Ki-moon rescue me
For I need peace, rest
I am awake. Awake.
Kennet Benoît-Hutchins
November 2010
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Ahh, the malfeasance of influenza.
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Submitted by Kennet on November 12, 2021
Modified on March 05, 2023
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Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 289 |
Words | 52 |
Stanzas | 2 |
Stanza Lengths | 10, 2 |
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