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Virus Versus

by  John G.Hall

Posted: Saturday, October 30, 2004
Word Count: 39
Summary: Where did you catch poetry?




Virus Versus


Today flu virus
washed my brain with mud
then wrote this.

Tomorrow drugs
will numb my nerves clean
of writing anything.

Soon I will wish
for poetry's sweet plague
& the death of all antidotes.



John G.Hall(c)2004