The symptoms – evening time a clot of phlegm,
and midnight dryness in my throat or nose.
Then every day at nearly 8 a.m.
I count 10 sneezes till the mucus flows.
I wonder if I’m ill or should suppose
I’m aging into local allergies.
But as I suffer the 11th sneeze,
I feel a cough roll upward like a plow.
And then bronchitis prompts a modest wheeze.
Apparently I host a cold for now.

(Dizain)