I’ve been meaning to ask:
how did you do
with that illness last week?
Did you…
survive it?
It’s just that
quintuple pneumonia is nothing to sneeze at,
y’know?

I mean,
I – personally – have never been foolish enough
to contract a serious disease
– too much effort, in my opinion –
but I suppose if you were to try to catch something
that would be the one to get.

So:
how’d it work out?
Did you lose a limb
a lover
your lunch hour
from missing too many days of work?

How’d it go?
Did you die?
You DID?