The Pandemic, or is that panic?

The Pandemic

It rose out of Mexico
this pandemic.
A local issue
reaching out.
Pig, bird or human?
None are safe!

The media have it now
this pandemic.
They call it
swine flu,
emergency processes
invoked

Australia
has the swine line.
Do you think
you would ever ring that?

The media have it now
this pandemic.
A few people
have died,
and yet
a lot more have not

Let us focus people,
sift through the facts,
and let nature
take her course
as she always has

The media have it now
this pandemic.
It’s bigger than Texas.
It appears
the financial crisis
is no longer rating

Financial markets drop.
Why?
Does someone have the flu
that should not
or are pork bellies the key?

The media have it now
this pandemic,
concerned
the world
has not been panicked
for days

What would we see on the news?
What would we hear?
If it had not been
for sick pigs

The media have it now
this pandemic,
turning it into
the biggest bug
since Y2K

It cannot be good
this lost art
of high-quality reporting.
It sees a reach
for sensationalism

The media have it now
this Pandemic,
only I wish
the media
did have it now,
this pandemic

© Bernard J Rossi