Nurse Betty

just a spoonful
of your love
is enough
to keep the bug
away. to keep
me warm when
the winter storms
arrive. the fever
down. the chills
at bay. just a
spoonful of you,
unmeasured, and
overpoured,
once at night
and once in
the morning and
i'm good to
go. healthy as
a horse with
a bag of oats
and hay,
good in fact
for the whole
damn day.