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submitted by Elizabeth Hobbs last modified 2008-09-14 18:23

Response to Word of the Week competition: A poem by Elizabeth Hobbs.

A person with flu is like a flue

But instead of channelling heat and smoke

With the barking cough and sudden ahhhhhhchoo

Comes the many-pronged virus aimed straight at you


With the barbed droplets come fever and chills

Dollops of goo backing up in the hooter then burst forth as if on a scooter

                                     Joints and muscles are weak with pain

                                     While sore throats make talking very lame


                                     In order to halt the contagion

                                     Doc advises paracetamol, bed and hydration

                                     So after two days or twenty of complete enervation

                                     There ends the flu fermentation

YEAH!

Posted by Sergio Zanzibar Manwualez at 2008-09-16 01:37
Ho Har!?! I like the use of awkward words in Poetry - particularly if one is able to complete the dual function of relevance and rhythm in a rhyming piece. I also enjoy the distinct Beginning-Verse-End function of the three stanzas, and the way you have dealt with the flu from three perspectives (if that makes sense... I guess I perceived it as 1 - when someone else has it, 2- what it feels like when *you* have it and 3 - what *we* does about it). Despite the overt awesomeness, one does question the second line in the second verse. it is too long and rhymes on itself instead of in a pair or partnership, suggesting that it should be separated from the body of the verse or revised to fit more appropriately.

But hey, you wrote it not me, so I can only assume you intended it!

Keep up with the bringing of the good goods (!)

Sergio Z. Manwualez
Writer/Hypochondriac