Trickle, Trickle
trickle, trickle
get a tickle
no need‒
get another's principle
let's be a wrinkle
maybe a freckle
trickle, trickle
out of the cradle
to the hospital
for a breathing bottle
trickle, trickle
two more with a tickle
soon hourly stays‒
build to more
than the middle
trickle, trickle
leaving behind principle
becomes regrettable
in parking lots‒
tents become normal
trickle, trickle
months added by decimal
more in wrinkle
‒black bags numerable
trickle, trickle
running around little freckles
four months in the cradle
maybe it's time‒
turn to the bible
‒no one's at the funeral
(March 20, 2020)―These sets of numbers were put before me today: WWI 1914-1918: 16 to 40 million causalities; Flue Pandemic 1918-1919 50 to 100 million causalities; WWII 1939-1945 70-85 million causalities (3% of the 1940 world population!).
Interesting isn’t it? 100 years and we face another pandemic. The 1918 pandemic was basically caused by soldiers coming home from the war and spreading it. Look at those numbers! Then there are other wars: Vietnam, Korea, then local wars where the numbers were extremely high and I’m sure all medical personal did the numbers and wrote tons of papers on the numbers.
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