"typhus" poems
Army men
City girls
Turned nurse
Hands held over
Slowly-contaminating
Breaths
Mason jar IVs
Cleansing white
Handkerchiefs
Masks
Yellow on white
Death in the air
Blood in my mouth
Hair
Lungs-everywhere
No new people
In months.
We know what it is.
We have Typhus
And it's not going away
Until it has ****** the breath from all of us
Until we are all dead
6 feet under
The ground
Apr 1, 2015
Apr 1, 2015 at 2:31 PM UTC
1
we ran outside
gathering the hailstones
before they could return
to rain
2
spring thunder storms
refreshed the
runoff ponds
the spring peepers
chorus chirps
3
soon, to be Indra, Lord of Heaven,
the God of War as well as Storms and Rainfall,
starter of war
a war which shall engulf
the planet and
perish all
4
in solid,
ice
which shall melt
and drown the littoral lands
lands peopled in the
billions
and so shall follow
disease plague typhus dysentery
death
in its many shapes and sizes
5
in drops
flows from your eye
6
according to religion
holy water
May 11, 2012
May 11, 2012 at 10:27 AM UTC
20th Century dawn.
Typhus Virus took human shape,
was named 'Typhoid Mary',
infected and killed many.
Perhaps deadly microbes believe like her,
'We are harmless'.
1st September,2017.
Sep 1, 2017
Sep 1, 2017 at 10:00 AM UTC
Anne Frank
I am ANNE FRANK
I liek kissing bois
And touchin them
I have a sweet secret
SWEET SWEET SECRET
The gas tastes nice
So does typhus fever
It smeels liek chicken
It smeels like Anne Frank up in this torture chamber
Apr 15, 2019
Apr 15, 2019 at 10:46 AM UTC
My heart of papier mache, dissolved in tears.
From tired days
and wearied years.
Angelic writing,
I read her line.
An Enchanted diary.
I just felt our souls, intertwine.
Here's to a life,
without expiry.
I thought about
how lost I was. High,
on a cosmetic buzz.
I heard her voice all around.
Then, I heard it resound.
But how was that? she's not alive,
She died of typhus,
spring of 1945.
Dec 13, 2018
Dec 13, 2018 at 9:42 PM UTC