Cough-In Nail
Light was long, the armchair and I,
Jules, heaped on the sofa.
The sunlight still.
I shook until my bones reminded me,
It was too cold.
Blanket.
Blanket.
Blanket.
Boiling in the wretch of the sun.
Fever.
…
Days.. Weeks.
Crawling blood, discarding my precious luminous red, into the bowl of a blue sink,
endlessly.
again. again. again. again.
Penicillin, for without you, much like a Victorian youth, I would have choked once more, maybe a week longer
and wilted into phantasms, of a cruel repute of disease and ills.
What would I have done in March?
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Written on May 04, 2024
Submitted by MigiRenoir on May 03, 2024
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Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 613 |
Words | 127 |
Stanzas | 9 |
Stanza Lengths | 1, 2, 5, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1 |
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