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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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Scheme XXXXXXXXXX XX
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 289
Words 52
Stanzas 2
Stanza Lengths 10, 2
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Kennet Benoît-Hutchins

A Canadian ambulatory Homo sapiens male, who muses and just sometimes, remembers to make note of a verse or two. Unionist with Unifor, accident adjudicator. Runs amok with words, occasionally coherent. more…

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