make polio great again
Bobby makes the grade
make polio great again ~
iron lung lobby
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Categories:
polio, america, health, humor,
Form: Senryu
Polio Polo
Pummeling skin to score
More of a game than a war
Preventing immunization
A killer strategic sensation
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Categories:
polio, games, sick, war,
Form: Couplet
Polio Is Back In Town
Hoop-la! Hoop-la! Polio is back in town.
And it is sick of being silent
With all the other viruses around.
It wants some humans to infect
To gain back some respect.
Covid and monkeypox, you better watch out
Ebola, Marburg, Tuberculosis, and AIDS too.
Polio is nothing to scoff about
It will paralyse little children
and put you in an iron lung
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Categories:
polio, health, horror, nature, parody,
Form: Rhyme
Polio
It effects my brain,
It effects my frame.
Oh! Polio it's deadly horrific,
And so bad is it's fame.
Slowly, steadily it eats my motors...
Cuts off the signals from my brain.
The only remedy, that has always been...
Hold me mama, I need vaccine!
Hold me mama, I need vaccine!
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Categories:
polio, society,
Form: Rhyme
On Zarker Street
Zarker Street was treeless,
front porches of houses
reaching the sidewalk,
not a square inch of grass
to welcome even a weed.
The polio ambulance, like a
a hungry animal, idled
In front of Ronnie Dasher’s house,
his brother being carted to the curb,
bound for an iron lung.
All the kids, having run inside,
watched from behind the windows.
“Mama, mama will I die?
I
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Categories:
polio, anxiety, assonance, garden, song,
Form: Lyric