Day 1 Flu Day 2 + Pneumonia and Death

Just when the human species might be feeling on the cocky side

A feeling when young that we’re immortal death to be defied  

Troubling news out of Phoenix of a 20 year mother of two

In good health but on this Sunday diagnosed with the flu

Trip to outpatient care for some flu meds

Then back home to rest and bed

Monday feeling like she was ready to die

Off to ER to the flu and now pneumonia defy

Onto a ventilator and a healthy doses of meds

To no avail and now she is dead

A six month old and two year old left in her wake

Never forget that life is precious too easy for microbes take

We may be at the top of the food chain with all manner of medical tricks

To contain and then destroy these pesky bacteria and viruses when we are sick

But in this case these microbes without a brain quickly mutated as they split

Much faster that the  FDA plodding along can new drugs into the marketplace admit

© December 4, 2017 Michael P. Ridley aka the Alaskanpoet

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