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| Genre | Poem |
| Keywords | Disease and Health, Ordinary Life, Patient Experience, Suffering |
| Summary | This is a comic poem in which the narrator describes the experience of having a head cold. |
| Commentary | More comic than complex, this poem might work best as an exercise in reminding physicians of the pain of even the most simple of complaints. It also provides an example of poetic imagery for beginning poets or writers. Piercy's metaphors are straightforward but surprising. |
| Source | My Mother's Body |
| Publisher | Knopf |
| Edition | 1985 |
| Place Published | New York |
| Annotated by |
Moore, Pamela |
| Date of Entry |
08/05/94 |
