Monday, December 14, 2020

Contagious Disease Unit - Ward 20 Deck 2 - poem

 

Lawrence Hall

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Contagious Disease Unit – Ward 20 Deck 2

 

Maybe my aptitude for throwing up

My ENT infections, fevers and chills

Hopeless motion sickness and fainting fits

Were the reasons why NavPers posted me there

 

All the diseases in the Fleet called it home:

Infections, syphilis, leprosy, the clap

(Let’s give him a hand), and for reasons not clear

A couple of crewmen from the Pueblo

 

Before I was sent to be sick in Indo-China -

And now they say there’s a virus going around

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