are things we had as kids
that
we
usually don't worry about
anymore.
measles,
the mumps,
whooping cough,
having our
tonsils taken
out.
we got all the shots
back then.
kids would miss school
for months
at a time
with scarlet fever,
or diphtheria,
small pox
and the German Measles
otherwise known
as Rubella.
we'd look around the classroom
and wonder
where the hell
Jimmy was
or Clementine.
they'd line us up in
the cafeteria
and fire vaccines
into our
boney arms
as we tried to muzzle
our screams.
sometimes
the medicine would be
tucked away
inside a sugar cube.
sweet and squared like
dice.
we were inoculated from
head to tail,
through and through,
nearly every day
at lunch,
before we ate our Jello,
and dug into
our lunch pail,
a nurse would be sticking
a needle into our arms.
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