Supine Flu
Do you struggle when the alarm goes off every morning? If you have a really hard time, you could have something called dysania. This means you simply can’t get out of bed for about 1 to 2 hours after you wake up.
Doctors have reported an outbreak of dysania.
Folks suffer from the syndrome from Missouri to Albania.
It’s interfering with world markets and sustainability,
and athletes have determined it’s affecting their agility.
Campers seeking all the pristine beauty of the wilderness
report that they are sleeping in and therefore they are hiking less.
Card sharks spend more time at home, bed-bound in their lair
for hours in the morning, playing solitaire.
Moms trying to spark interest in starting their kids’ days,
are equally lethargic, and prone to merely laze.
When it comes to what to call the curse, science is still vague,
for It seems most of the scientists have come down with the plague.
They put off their experiments and their cogitations
in lieu of morning lollings-about in their habitations.
Coffee shops are suffering and worldwide, gyms are closing
as people give up other morning hangouts for reposing.
The whole world has gone lazy and is given to the lying-in.
So much for morning exercise, conditioning and getting thin.
And although most joggers have ceased morning exploring,
Sealy Posturepedic stocks have been reported soaring!
They’ve tried to conduct seminars from New York to the Hague
to try to solve the puzzle of this early morning ague,
but the lazy attendees have said we’ll have to guess,
for science cannot seem to conquer this new laziness!
They haven’t even named it yet, so in their usual fashion,
world wits have exercised their nomenclature-driven passion.
Since the scientists are sleeping in, they do not have a clue
that the whole world has agreed that they have the Supine Flu.
Prompt words today are shark, spark, dysania, pristine and sustainability.
lifelessons - a blog by Judy Dykstra-Brown 
Hahaha! So good Judy.
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This one was a tricky one.
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You nailed it
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Judy this is brilliant.
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So far no masks required.
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Wow, Dysania and Supine Flu can wreak real havoc. I think I’ll pass on a dose of that, I like my mornings! Great poem, Judy.
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Me, too. Mine are productive, though. I wrote this poem in bed!!
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How perfect a poem on being in bed written in bed! Morning for me is about being out with Lucy dog. We love our morning in the woods together.
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That sounds both idyllic and energetic.
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It is. I love it.
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And there I was thinking there was no point in getting up because I could stay in bed and read. UNLESS I need coffee. The obsessive need for coffee will get me up when nothing other does it 😀
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A coffee pot on a timer on your bedside table will solve that, Marilyn. Got any other problems for me to solve?
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Astonishing! Tell me, Judy, what’s your secret for keeping dysania at bay? Clearly YOU’RE up and around! It could be a very lucrative formula you know!! Me? I blame it on the comfortable temperatures in my area just now! I sleep like the proverbial baby and like that baby, am annoyed at being woken up!
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I wake up but stay in bed and write.
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Glad to finally have a diagnosis.
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Ha. Vaccination pending.
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This is so relatable!
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Ha.. we are so related by our quirks!!!
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