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🔥  Hot Flash Hell Haiku 🔥Â
Hormonal headacheÂ
Flaring up at 4 a.m.
Taunting the Synthroid
Puddle of head sweatÂ
Dripping onto soggy sheets
MoRnInG HoT fLaSh HeLL 🔥 Â
Underwear binding
Evil, disloyal traitors
Unforgiving fiendsÂ
Leg pillow, ice fan
Trusted friends of menopause
Welcome, mid-fifties!Â
Common Threads 
These are AWESOME and SPOT ON! I have been pretty lucky overall with these afflictions, but I do know of what you speak. That 4 am headache – ugh, deadly! Especially, when you face the long working day ahead. Be well!
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Dear Kim… in a word: ALAS. The truth you tell is not “slant”… it's what country folk might call the “pure-T” truth. How you capture and convey such power in so few words always astonishes me. Love the capitals running through the “hot flash hell” line – that random jaggedness of the experience itself – although I do see that part spells RIGHT. Underwear as evil traitors and fiends… preach on, sister!!
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