POETRY
Viral
It’s more than just my article that’s gone viral this month
It’s more than just my article that this month has gone viral, for I have been struck down with illness, one after the next. I do not know the why or how of either situation, and both have made me scratch my head and left me quite perplexed.
I’ve had both of my covid jabs, and always wear my mask. Not only that I haven’t ventured too far past my door. And way back in September I received my winter flu shot. So all in all I don’t know why my throat’s now so damn sore.
I usually have allergies that blight me every springtime, but since I’ve been in lockdown and avoiding the outside I hadn’t had the slightest tickle, stinging eyes, or sneezes, ’til when a few short weeks ago, a headcold changed the tide.
I went to bed and rested well to battle the infection and in about a week or so much better I was feeling. Then just today, as I was looking forward to my prospects I find that now it is with tonsillitis I am dealing.
It’s rather an annoying pain to once again be fighting against a virus that just keeps on targetting my voice, because it’s through my vocal cords I mostly make my living. Now another I break I have to take, through necessity, not choice!
As for the post that’s taken off, with that I am more cheery, and as of now it has been viewed almost twelve-thousand times. I don’t know why an article from months ago has flourished. Thank god it has, cause I really need those twenty-one hundred dimes!
Jupiter Grant is a self-published author, blogger, narrator, and audiobook producer.
If you are able to spare a little change for a freelancer who makes the bulk of her earnings through the use of her voice but has been laid low this month, I’d be ever so grateful if you could buy me a coffee here: https://ko-fi.com/jupitergrant






