Cough Cough Coughy Cough - Alexandria Blaelock

I’ve had the direst couple of weeks because DB kindly brought me the latest flu doing the rounds and it seems that all I did was cough.

Cough cough cough.

Or wake up coughing and gasping for air.

Waking up from weird fever dreams where someone posted me a live cat, I killed ALL the dolphins to save my email, and a flock of tiny turtledoves ripped apart an enormous spider.

Happily, I also woke up with this fully formed Haiku hanging in the air.

And luckily for me, it didn’t fade into oblivion like a fever dream when I went back to sleep.

a man in a nightshirt, sitting up in bed wth the haiku cough cough coughy cough I gasp and try to draw breath but alas not yet. — This charming illustration comes from an advertising card for Hoadley’s Cough Mixtures c. 1930 via State Library Victoria.

You can read more of my Haiku here.