Epidemic Protocol
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Monday morning in New York
The air is polluted with their breath
Commuting in masses to work
Walking in close proximity to death
A man in a business suit coughs
A woman in heels consumes the disease
This is how humanity
was brought to its knees…
Airborne epidemic
don’t cough,
don’t sneeze
Contamination of lungs,
don’t inhale
don’t breathe
Quarantine!
Quickly!
Seal off the city!
Gas masks!
Plastic prisons!
It’s spreading so quickly!
Their screams are easily heard from outside of the tents
This abomination is baffling our world’s governments
By modern science and medicine, it seems unaffected
Until the victim’s eyes bleed, it remains undetected
It started with one
Progressed into thousands
Estimated death count
Is approaching the millions
Blood and vomit
Staining the streets
Corpses of victims
Piled in heaps
Protocol must now sadly be followed
Despite protests from the unfortunate pilot
The fighter jet carries its nuclear payload
A soldier’s moral conscience reaches its limit
A flash is seen a hundred miles away
Followed by a delayed, powerful shockwave
Fallout descends from the darkening sky
A dark day in history, they cannot deny
Tuesday evening in Beijing
A child holding his mothers hand
Gets off an airplane, coughing
Won’t this vacation simply be grand?
© copyright Ben D.A 2011