We know that Florence is a quadruple
threat-storm surge, wind, flooding and rain
Add to that misery and potential for
death and damage an additional threat refrain
North Carolina is awash in pig farms
Raising the contamination by manure alarm
9 million hogs defecating and
urinating into 2,000 hog ponds filled with waste
Farmers scrambling to lower water
levels with great haste
If they overflow all many of disease
the sewage water will sow
Contaminating drinking water sources
will be a deadly blow
E-coli is not your intestinal friend
And ingestion will in many cases to
a morgue or hospital the drinker send
Like the “Rhyme of the Ancient Mariner”
water everywhere and not a drop to drink
If contaminated by hog waste hopes
for a speedy restoration and return will sink
300,000 beer cans of water from Budweiser
will be only a drop to fill the need
Not having uncontaminated water will
recovery efforts really impede
© September 13, 2018
Michael P. Ridley the Alaskanpoet
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