Broad awake
Lying in a fitful unease
Taste of churning stomach 
   coating swollen tongue
Hot to touch
Shivers
Hand tremble cannot be still

Made sick
   in order to not get sick
This one might kick you
   the nurse said

Second day body ache
   bends me into fetal position
Pervasive malaise 
   as undefined as death

I wait for its ebb