Heart Disease

 

"She got a new job yet?" the sister asked.
He told his sister, she’s got this disease
I can proudly call Computerosis, being
on the computer all day (was this all day
true?). If she had been on the cellphone
everytime he saw her (when he comes
out of the bathroom or his bedroom,
when she’s out of their bedroom braving
again her in-laws' prudent jurisprudence),
then we must tag her with another disease
altogether. If with a book (never mind if
about careers, and never mind if the PC
and cellphone are job-hunting [or business-
hunting] tools too, apart from the shoes,
apart from being poetry-writing equipment),
Bookosis! Cellphonosis? If something bad
from the mouth can be called Halitosis, what
should we call things bad coming from a heart?

 

 

 

 

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