<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=552853" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Flu</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">If I could but linger all day in bed<br>drinking tea and medicinal whiskey<br>no more than is good take sudafed<br>and capture great sneezes in clean, white linen handkies<br>gorge my cold like a robin her brood<br>on broth stewn with bits of chicken<br>or curd with honey drizzle, that preferred<br>on shivery, brief trips to the kitchen<br>scratch in the tablet of the frosted pane<br>as my fingertip goes numb<br>some couplet of Ovids' or Verlaines'<br>that straightway dissolves and down the window runs<br>then climb to the parapet of my pillow again<br>browse travelogues and dream<br>of the beaches of Carossal or plage de Saline<br>I should be the happiest of men.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">But I can't so I rise like Lazarus<br>reluctant to be summoned from the dead<br>thick with the afflictions of my flux<br>and irked to have to go to work instead; <br>spread bed sheets out all wet with sweat<br>command myself to the shower<br>(how warm it seems for how cold it was) <br>and reach for the door with a lour.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">But neither is the flu a malingerer<br>for dressed and waiting at the door<br>as I leave, with its flies eyes and its mentholator<br>it coughs-and we descend the stairs together.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Robert+Dickerson">Robert Dickerson</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=552853" data-title="Flu de Robert Dickerson" data-description="If I could but linger all day in bed drinking tea and medicinal whiskey no more than is good take sudafed and capture great sneezes in clean, white linen handkies gorge my cold like a robin her brood on broth stewn with bits of chicken or curd wit..."></div> </div> </div>

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