O, ye least dastardly of symptoms!

You hailed the arrival of my first bout of covid!

Long after the brain fog and headaches were gone, still ye remained!

Ye mere annoyance, who persists for around a week!

You let me go for almost two months before ye returned!

This time when ye came it, I am glad it was without covid!

Yet you kept me from my exams!

Yet you kept me out of work and in prison cell apartment!

Yet you kept me from flirting around with a pretty lady after a great first date!

I am one day away from leaving town for spring break,

And it is only now you decide to release your mucusy membrane from my throat,

And leave me with a raspy dry cough

Fuck you!!