The Allergens are Marching Two by Achoo

Picture is Property of Jonathan S. Brooks

It’s spring time and the allergens are attacking.  They make air forces pale in their ability to lead a stealth attack, affecting more people in one wave than the common flu.  It starts with a tickling of the nose and ends up as a full blown explosion tearing through the olfactory system.  They won’t stop here, mercifulness in the daily pursuit of agony, these allergens are.   They delight in warning you of the suffering to come, that slight scratch to the back of the throat.  After toying with you, like a cat with its prey, the whole regiment will march down the bunker stripping the throat raw on its way to the lungs, while sending reinforcements to the sinuses.  Now they will clog up the infrastructure until the enemy is immobilized.  Oh yes, this is a well trained army, and it should be.  It has been waging its attack far longer than us.  Of course you will fight back with those snake oil treatments.  What is your favorite, vapor rubs… self suffocation?  Maybe you use an over the counter remedy, causing you to sleep through the misery putting you down nearly as good as the allergens, celebrate with this choice they will.   Maybe the Doctor’s prescribed blend of Vu-do can help after paying him/her enough to put a down payment on another condo for just the minimum of relief.  Last maybe you turn to electronics to save you with one of those filter things.  A good device for collecting all those allergens in one place creating a cannon to explode a concentrated attack at point blank range at their victim.  Yes, this army loves our technology and plans to use it against us.  Now I don’t know but I’m thinking about seeking legal help.   There are laws about unreasonable punishment and torture, and they need to be amended into the Laws of Nature.  She can’t think she’s better than all of us.  Flower power my @!!.  If refusing to quit we will threaten large scale plastic disposal, weed killers, oil, pollutants, and whatever else we can throw at her army… You know maybe this war is self-defense.