home Poem List next poem New Diseases For New Times Diseases keep evolving in Asia Death spectrums are disturbingly silent Something new has entered this phantasia After certain ages death won't relent Most of some ages simply pass away Lost in statistics designed to quell fears Masking dangers in data hideaways While death lurks in backgrounds for many years We know of germs which fate has localized Virulence is harbored in seclusion While travel becomes too politicized Safety devolves quickly to delusion Counter-evolution, the viral mode Keeps pace with man's work around solutions Methods for changing escapes the workload As change-ling encodings drive polutions Distribution's uncontrollable sites Where vagrant viruses mingle at will Seem just beyond medicine's modern rites Incidents in place of reasons can kill Hindustani lands of conspiracy In which levels of thought must be charted For our rights in others are heresy Mislabelling, this habit they started (c)ERA 07:44 PM 5/12/03