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Apr 2020
During WW2 here in Ireland
and indeed around the world,
people were very fortunate to
have a ready made food source
via wild Rabbit which was in
great abundance, easily caught.

Not too long after the war was
over, when industry and farming
became renewed with an intensity
unrivalled in history of agriculture,
It was then also, this mysterious
virus was introduced for culling.

How quickly they forgot, infected
Rabbits were transported around
countries continents hemispheres
even as far as Australia and from
there to Tasmania & New Zealand.

Here we are now in 2020 dealing
with an animal to human Covid
19 which, if not be Karma, must
surely be poetic justice for our
continued disregard of nature the
planet, but, nothing will change!

Herd immunity worked for Rabbits,
they are back in force, man made
Myxo has lost its potency but no
doubt our top of the pyramid
master of the Universe attitudes
will go on killing until we get
Ryan O'Leary
Written by
Ryan O'Leary  Mallow.
(Mallow.)   
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   Kanishka
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