Herd Immunity

 RANDOM JACK POETRY HOUR:  CORONAVIRUS SERIES

Herd Immunity 

 

Survival of the best and brightest

(at least the richest)

Genocide of the poor

(the old and sick)

Winnowing the herd

(eliminating the slow and feeble)

Sacrifice the common masses

(the nameless horde)

Let the weak and useless go

(who needs artists actors poets?)

Call it population control

(like China’s one child policy)

Throw the dice and let it ride

(you can run but you cannot hide)

 

What’s a few million or more?

 

But who decides who lives and dies?

The con man and the hustler?

The man of infinite lies?

 

Who decides who dies and lives?

The man who admires dictators?

The man who never gives?

 

We think not

We’ll take our chances

With good old Joe

And science

Good old science