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Immunity
His lies were serum sickness, foreign proteins in my vein;
My heart’s immune rebellion flared in fever, ache, and strain.
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Antivenom, vaccine, rituximab of trust,
I crowned each syringe of fiction with an antibody’s thrust.
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