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Printed from https://writing.com/main/books/entry_id/982003-pneumonia
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Rated: 18+ · Book · Contest Entry · #1912256
a descent into poetry insanity
#982003 added April 25, 2020 at 9:59am
Restrictions: None
pneumonia
I was fourteen
when the fever came,
catching in my lungs and
carrying me away so fast
my body stayed behind.
sometimes I had conversations,
that almost made sense
before they weighted me
down with blankets
so I couldn't float away.
I was ice and I was fire,
and lifting my arms
was impossible because
they were anchored to the earth
and I was drifting in clouds,
everything of me disappearing
in the fever except me.

line count: 17
April 25: muse on a disease or illness of any kind

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