Been texting with my mama friends
Earaches, coughs, it never ends
January brought the cold
And the sickness, new and old
Since we got together just last weekend
Suddenly the fevers are peakin'
Cost of friendship isn't in bills
It's in aching, coughing, chills
Stomach flu? We're puking too!
Kids achoo? That's how we do!
In his bedroom heaving child?
New school terms? Walking germs.
A get-together? Then under the weather.
Quarantined? Ain't no thing:
We'll share this illness wirelessly, virusly, up all hours - tirelessly.
Wash those hands! Sanitize!
Cut these epidemics down to size!
(We can always fantasize.)
If we'd known we'd have stayed home.
Kept brewing germies on their own.
Honestly I can't predict
When these kids are almost sick
Playing-smiling-running-
CRASH!
Fever spike, puke in trash.
Send a text.
Disinfect.
Sympathize.
No surprise:
Too late now, damage done.
Watch them go down one by one!
Then the mamas join the "fun".
Given time the sicknesses pass,
And the kiddos get back to class,
But these growing little friendships last.
Could keep healthy-seeming friends away.
Or we can just... let 'em play.
Kids will get sick anyway.
(That's A+ Parenting Today.)
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