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I can just about remember starting to feel very hot indeed. I was on a fever ship left to burn and moan with the others. We did fever ships in history. Pocahontas was left to die on one in Gravesend, poor soul. Now me too.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Delirious. She\u2019s got a fever.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

That was\nJoe\u2019s diagnosis. I heard it. He was talking to my friend May who lives next\ndoor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

And it\u2019s all my fault. We should have just come\nhome and found the Lemsip. Now she\u2019s got such a high temperature I think we\u2019re\ngoing to have to get the GP out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Oh Joe,\nJoe, Joe, don\u2019t you know you give me fever. But in a good way.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

You give me fever
\nWhen you kiss me
\nFever when you hold me tight
\nFever in the morning
\nFever all through the night.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was in junior\nschool I first remember feeling like that. Sometimes the boys would fan out in\nthe playground and try to catch a girl and kiss her. We screamed, I loved that\nwild screaming and it was always Francis that caught me. (I bet they\u2019d stamp on\nthat these days). There wasn\u2019t a word we knew for that feeling in final year\njuniors – but we\u2019ve all caught up since, I guess.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And there\nwas the proposal I wrote to Paul McCartney. He definitely brought the fever on.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Never know how much I love you
\nNever know how much I care
\nWhen you put your arms around me
\nI get a fever that’s so hard to bear<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Except he never did\nput his arms around me, and didn\u2019t even reply  to my offer. So I just had to live with\nunrequited lust until I decided never to communicate with him again. His loss.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There were some\nunmemorable outbreaks of fever over the years I suppose. Nothing as hot as Joe\nthough. Never will be.<\/p>\n\n\n\n


\nSun lights up the daytime
\nMoon lights up the night
\nI light up when you call my name
\nAnd you know I’m gonna treat you right<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Never\ndesired anything (apart from Joe obvs) nor worked so hard as I did before leaving\nhome. I just had to get my A levels, get away from home and start college. It\nwas a need so strong that I got what I wanted by sheer force of will. That was\na fever too. Very hard, very urgent, very essential. And I did it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I\u2019m\nstarting to hear voices:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I think she\u2019s singing. Hope not, she\u2019s got a terrible voice.\nStill, she might be coming round.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

That\u2019s\nJoe\u2019s voice. Quite an unjust comment, I think. I\u2019ll sing if I like.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Everybody\u2019s got the fever<\/p>\n\n\n\n

That is something you all know<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Fever isn\u2019t such a new thing<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Fever started long ago.
\n
\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then\nMay started up<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Well as you say, if she\u2019s singing she\u2019s not dying, so I\u2019ll just\nleave you to it. Maybe some cotton wool for your ears?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Who needs friends when you can have fever?

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