Allergy

Between nose-dribbling sneezing & watery eyes I’m 

less the guy who usually takes things calm & easy - 

if that’s possible with the onset of a pollen-related & 

in all respects completely nefarious allergy; or must 

I re-think the causal chain - there’s Rugby: Glasgow 

playing The Saracens, it may be a connect; & being 

part-Scot doesn’t dramatically make their losing any 

less of a too-difficult-to-cope-with hypersensitivity 

But be that as it may, other contenders need adding 

into a drift of happenstance, like insect repellant - & 

in the past Mortein mozzie zapper has had a case t’ 

answer; and if we widen the chain, there’s the flush 

of mushrooms after the rain broke our last drought - 

& that was only a few days ago by Cyclone Debbie 

Or it could be insect spray used too liberally to cope 

with a manic growth of insect-life crazy in th’ veggie 

waste bin; & who is to blame - your’s truly naturally; 

leaving the durn thing another day encourages ‘em 

to breed because emptying its deemed a chore out 

of all proportion to the need to watch Rugby Live … 

And then there’s the fine Lager accompanied by an 

auspiciously posh Pear Cider on occasions when a 

Rugby game demands lubrication with panache; its 

my folly I know - & that’s a hangover from way back 

in a past cultured liberally with the same events; so 

the bane rests gamely on me - and that pollen dust 

Knowing exactly when to restart the allergy again 

© 3 April 2017, I. D. Carswell