R.A.D. Stainforth has the sniffles...
It's good to eat
when you have
the sniffles.
Your head is a bowling ball,
but go ahead, gorge
on chicken soup
and copious whiskey.
Lay it on a pillow,
stuff tissue in the nostrils;
call yourself
Princess Vanilla,
even though you don't look it.
As for starving a fever,
it's a little too risky ―
you always prove
deliciously beneficial.
when you have
the sniffles.
Your head is a bowling ball,
but go ahead, gorge
on chicken soup
and copious whiskey.
Lay it on a pillow,
stuff tissue in the nostrils;
call yourself
Princess Vanilla,
even though you don't look it.
As for starving a fever,
it's a little too risky ―
you always prove
deliciously beneficial.
tk/October 2012
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| Sick Woman, 1665, by Jan Steen |
