Zero One and modern blight Travel at the speed of light.
We wondered on the Wandering Jew, Or, in lieu, Orthon, Urian or Lilitu.
We trepanned our empty skulls, Searched our humours, Were touched by Rulers!
Now troubling symptoms of want and need, Have blighted growth of yesterseed.
Patient Zero left no lead.
East fingered West (and vice versa) Was Ireland really the cause of cholera? Did Blacks languish in Tuskegee squalor? We christened Mary, but drank the water. Fracked Incubus and Succubus From son and daughter.
Patient Zero left the slaughter.
We deprived women of their tea To cure wandering womb hysteriae. Deviances and leaking lesions Were headwaters of women's *****.
Patient Zero has no season.
The barber sensed it might be smell, So our widened streets became a sulfurous hell. And wastelands swelled Where curled cats dwelled. (no talk of Michelangelo)
II
Our children's blight has a techno name, Like the rose, IT smells the same. With zero tolerance I lay blame On screens and phones and video games.
The world wide box stores flipped their lids, Touching all who crawl the social grids; From the base of Mammon's pyramid.
Now Jake believes he's a gangsta dude Since posting whatever on You Tube. Nothing to gain, nothing to lose: No services rendered but expects what's due.
Inflated egos are a system symptom, Clearing firewalls, reaching children.
Patient Zero is no phantom.
There is no tale of rat or flea As cause of lost immunity. There is no open sore to fester, The Selfie is the X-ray picture.
Patient Zero is so much quicker.
In our gel of techno bliss, On our elliptic petrie dish, Bathed in more than we could wish, Patient Zero will finish, And with that whimper All vanish.