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JANUARY 9 BLUES Blue on a day gorgeous as a Polio cell and as invasive, dangerous. The life cycle of the Polio virus enters a human nerve cells, intriguing as blue flowers, a sapphire ornament hanging from a tree, as harm- less as a suave lover who sweeps a damaged woman into his arms, invades, gives her family rings, leaves her paralyzed 2. an iron lung. I'm trapped. You'd think I couldn't breathe without it, paralyzed by some virus, my legs not my legs. No need for a new Bloomingdale's velvet jacket. Might as well have as Polio hospitals did, a notice: "all visitors must receive permission to enter"
copyright LYN LIFSHIN
