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poor kid, hacking and wheezing
as she watches Mythbusters

her sister notes
"you're flat when you're sick"
and she is, stretched out on the couch
this child who is usually doing two things at once
drawing and thinking,
homework and Nova,
making mammoths and totoros
reduced to a single dimension by misery
cheered only by the thought
of missing another day of school