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        Love Poem on About the Sixth Day of Influenza
  With a self-interrogation as to the poet's immune system
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Amidst the ordered chaos of the flu,
An Amazon exults as best she can,
Reflecting on her vow of clear nonviolence:
"Now please confess at will, relentless spinster,
Which virus was the first or last you harmed?
How many microbes have you killed in all?"

Nonviolence is relative we thus may see,
And sisterhood most precious at all times.

Margo Schulter
15-16 January 2017