These Are My JOTtings, Part #2

Feeling Sick: "When the Cold Gives You a Cold"

To cough, and cough, and cough, again
is really not so fun.
The body knows not how to win,
nor when the pain is done.

The temps have been so very cold
throughout this month, that's new.
Not every moment, that's been told,
with warm ones, just a few.

They say, "The cold can't give a cold,"
but in these freezing days
a bad thing walks about so bold,
and health it oft dismays.

To wash the self, and don new clothes
is challenging at best.
Perspiring makes quite smelly those.
Thus, life is quite a test.

"Just get some rest, while fluids drink,"
is the advice we oft receive.
These sickness days are not a blink.
Lost work we can't retrieve.

"The next cold spate should bring some snow,"
doth weathermen profess,
but more of coughing? I don't know.
When will the weather bless?

So, stay, thee, well, while layering coats,
some blankets, serapes these,
and blog some more of better notes.
Fight cold with Vita-Cs.

by Jay O’Toole
on January 16th, 2025