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Losing My Grippe
Egon Schiele, Die Familie, 1918
Upper Belvedere, Wien,
https://arthive.com/egonschiele/works/165~Family
Influenza, yet again!
Outfluenza, yes but when?
If you want to take me away
Okay, but please not this way
I am a useful member of society
I write poetry
I took my flu shot
My family has suffered enough
in 1918 my father lost a brother
that same year my mother lost her father
One of my favourite artists
Egon Schiele and his family
would all perish in that same year
Just a few souls
among the fifty million around the world
snatched from life
But if you insist
just grant me the wish
that I can fulfil
my promises before you reap.
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