With the hubbub over Covid and now monkeypox it is easy to lose sight of viruses that are already part of our world until they hit home.
Vaccination Hesitation
What nasty rash skirted my eye?
The fates against falling ill had
favored me: no shingles shot marred
my schedule. But blotches now sullied
my visage and panicked my partner
to the clinic where we both tried to needle
the varicella virus from scoring again.
In the wake of my mistaken calculation,
I swear I heard an oddsmaker snicker,
and I swallowed days of misery.
Marilyn Aschoff Mellor
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