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Corinne
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state of confusion

0 posted 2003-04-27 11:33 PM


Pandemic Rambling

Sticky molecules cling to air particles
lining lungs like wallpaper.
Diffusing and transmuting –
stretching for lands of poverty
to prove real capabilities,
swaggering from hospital beds
to beds in the streets.

Back at home, we’re rethinking cruises and business travel -
that Air Canada commuter jet coming in to Chicago
filled with customers and ball players,
and in a month from now or so,
the seven-percent death rate will continue
to climb.

As the World Bank announces crumbling economies,
seeds skip country-to-country, stones on a clear lake.

Someday kids will read about it in school
comparing numbers to the Influenza of 1918
or the Bubonic Plague.

They’ll read how we once worried about germ warfare,
while it turned out birds, rats and monkeys
were the bigger threat.

© 2003 Core


[This message has been edited by Corinne (04-28-2003 12:05 AM).]

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Justbleu
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1 posted 2003-04-28 12:15 PM


Good point....this was interesting!!!!
I liked your use and twist on words!!!!
Very nice.....
Bridgette

"Somewhere, somehow, it should be possible to touch someone and never let go again.  To hold someone, not for a moment but forever." Unknown


Dark Angel
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2 posted 2003-04-28 05:26 AM


Always a pleasure reading you Corinne.

adding this to my library.

Maree

wranx
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3 posted 2003-04-28 01:41 PM


Seems that we've been paying too much attention to wrong things, eh?

Nice.

Seymour Tabin
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Tamarac Fla
4 posted 2003-04-28 02:06 PM


Corinne
An interesting write, enjoyed the read.

Corinne
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5 posted 2003-04-28 05:20 PM


Thanks Bridget, Maree, Wranx and Sey!

On the dark side, I know!

Cor

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