POETS Day: Antisocial Sonnet #2

Gesundheit!

The drama of a sneeze can’t be denied,

Its setting of the stage is masterly,

It starts with just a tingle deep inside

In nasal preface to catastrophe.

And then it builds to twitchings of the nose

With halting gasps that interrupt your speech

To give fair warning by your facial throes

That soon you’ll splatter all within your reach.

But if you try to stop it by main force

Or stifle the inevitable blast,

You find that goes against its nature’s course–

Just let it go and get relief at last.

For s...