It’s a weak dry cough <br />And a head full of cement <br />It’s a little bit of phlegm <br />Every now and then <br />A throat like a cheese grater <br />Shaving raw testicles <br />A body like someone else’s <br />Old shrivelling slowly dying <br />Like a slug in an oven <br />Its red onion eyes <br />With lemon peel lids <br />It’s the short sharp tip <br />Of a breath full of fear <br />Like inhaling needles <br />On Everest<br /><br />Dean Meredith<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/symptomatic/
