Category Archives: Health

Say Which?

Posted on July 24, 2020 by sputterpub

The bug is new, and creatures who should lead are aiming, if they have an aim, to block emerging facts from notice. They impede statistics, bury data. It would shock us but our tolerance to stupid, bad and venal is … Continue reading →

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Bad Spit

Posted on July 22, 2020 by sputterpub

The root canal and implant surgery, my dental treatments during quarantine, one necessary, one appropriate, are why I ventured from the sanity of home alone and comfortable hygiene (the pain and symptoms weren’t counterfeit). A hair salon I’d fain be … Continue reading →

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Mask Etiquette

Posted on July 17, 2020 by sputterpub

I know the weakest link defines the chain, in terms of strength (and what’s of more import than hold if chains are judged?) The links will strain when pull’s applied, until the poor falls short. Just so, as we now … Continue reading →

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It’s Not Too Late (Rondine)

Posted on July 13, 2020 by sputterpub

It’s not too late to tackle this disease, that triggers inflammation causing more compounding symptoms, circumventing sure analysis, prodigious in degrees of insult – manifest debilities – while experts scavenge blindly for a cure. It’s not too late. As soon … Continue reading →

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Stunned (HA 111 Dactyls)

Posted on July 6, 2020 by sputterpub

Isn’t it stunning, how stupid he is? Ignorance married to bad attitude, fully incapable – losing at biz, only exampling how to be crude. Isn’t it stunning, how dreadful they are? Failing to dump him, not even for us, acting … Continue reading →

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Pretending (HA 110 Sestina)

Posted on July 5, 2020 by sputterpub

It takes a while for catastrophe to be accepted by the human mind. We may react reflexively at once, the way we mindlessly pull back from burn, but full acceptance is a slower deal. At first we try to bargain … Continue reading →

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T-Cells (HA 104 Almost-Pushkin Sonnet)

Posted on June 29, 2020 by sputterpub

When I encounter an idea that tacks some sense into phenomena observed, and isn’t contradicted by the facts, I think that clear attention is deserved. About this virus, all we know for sure (besides the absence of vaccine or cure) … Continue reading →

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101st Try (HA 101 Catena Rondo)

Posted on June 26, 2020 by sputterpub

I didn’t mean to carry on so long. I started this for one and twenty days, intending to employ new verse arrays. I didn’t mean to carry on so long. I started this for one and twenty days. The metrics … Continue reading →

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Arrested Walking (HA 98 Magic 9)

Posted on June 23, 2020 by sputterpub

I need to walk outside most every day. That’s why I chose a climate that affords activity. Beneath blue sky or gray I walked for years to travel or commute, to shop or meet or visit where I may. But … Continue reading →

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Fatigue (HA 97)

Posted on June 22, 2020 by sputterpub

All creatures have to notice things that move, and people are no different than the low. Our species is impulsive too – we prove it by the way we all feel boredom grow when custom stills or culture stalls and … Continue reading →

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