Trending on Twitter

Ebola is a pretty word;

it skips like lilting laughter.

It could be one of those fancy names

you’d give your baby daughter.

A pretty word, an ugly thing,

this new disease Ebola.

You will hear a lot of it

before you get much older.

That’s IF you get much older, see?

They tell me it’s a killer

escaped into the community —

the worst kind of horror thriller.

The fear is rising all over the world,

or at least for those on twitter.

Ebola is the enemy:

a meanie, a hard hitter.

Yes it’s real and yes it’s nasty;

I don’t mean to disparage.

But can’t we note what we need to do

without this drama barrage?


31 Poems in 31 Days (from Poewar / Writer's Resource Center) Prompt: Trending