Black book

By Giggles Anderson

Public institutions
and pathogens can create
public safety nightmares.

Clusters turning into plagues.

Like angry bugs lining up,
at the base of a tree.

A simple case of head lice,
the complex journey that is HIV.
With staph and TB stuck
somewhere in between.

Pathogens are making appointments
with the kids at school,
lawyers at the Courthouse,
and anyone with an opening in their schedule.