Smell of Beer to One with a Cold

.
.
.
 Specific bubbles of the
 brewery --
   not generalized tickling of the nose
     -- which would be a failure 
  (poetrywise)
and how!
.
.
    Sitting here
the pungent smell (can't 
    smell a thing)
can't shake the smell
can't shake the images (mental)
 ---which would be a failure
    (of the beer)
fermentation, mystical
   sickening.
.
10 March 1996

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