Ampho-Terrible

I'm shaking.

I'm feverish, I'm shaking.

I'm hallucinating, or there's a big pink rhinoceros in the room.

Is that you in the haze?

Make it stop, make it stop!

It's so cold, but my breath is so hot.

My hand on my skin feels heat,

burning heat.

My teeth are chattering, it's so cold, so cold.

Blankets, more blankets, please more blankets.

Turn up the heat, why won't someone make this freezing room warmer?

I feel a cool trickle of something shooting through my veins;

the nurse has come to save me.

Strangely, that coolness brings me warmth and comfort.

I'm not shaking.

I'm not hallucinating.

I'm not chattering.

I'm not freezing.

I'm exhausted.

I sleep.