"Sonic Icons

--That liquid cough.
I cringe inly
for the millionth
time, hearing
in it the sick child
ignorant of remedy,
the unloved adult
without hope of succor,
& the pathetic slave
fearful of reprisals
for a day's absence."

--D*vil-Bug, Onlin* P*titions Ar* Gr*at! (2001)