Adelaide's Lament - Faith Prince

In other words

Just from sitting alone

At a table

Reserved for two

A person

Can develop the flu

You

Can bundle her up in her woolies

And I mean

The warmest

Friend you can wrap her in sweaters and

Coats till its more than her brain

Can stand if

She still gets the feeling

She's naked from looking at

Her left hand a

Person can develop the flu the

Flu a hundred and three point two

So much virus

Inside

That her microscope slide

Looks like a day at

The zoo

Just from wanting her memories in writing

And

A story her folks can be told

A person can

Develop a cold