Chikungunya Virus Now Here Grab Your Off

One thing we do not need is another mosquito borne tropical disease

Especially since anyone from Central America can come across our border with ease

Worse we do not need a virus we cannot pronounce and for a poet cannot rhyme

Chikungunya virus has just infected a Florida man; how fast it spreads is only a matter of time

So we at least can say what it is let's call it the Virus Chik

When enters you complements of a mosquito you know you are going to be sick

No vaccine, fever and swelling in the joints, no meds to take

Not as fatal as dengue but still scary chills, shake and bake

We as humans when it comes to germs and viruses may be on borrowed time

Wondering in a shrunken flat earth when the next pandemic goes prime

Or the new strain of med resistant  staph

That destroys all organs and muscle tissue in its path

Another reason why our border crisis is a ticking health time bomb waiting to explode

While our public health system swamped by new arrivals continues to erode

Scary thought so instead of war on women or income inequality is it time to wage?

A war on mosquitoes kicked off by canning the ban on DDT set forth in the Silent Spring page

© July 18, 2014 Michael P. Ridley aka the Alaskanpoet