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Category: Health & Wellness / Topics: Animals • Disease
A Little Piggy in Big Trouble
Posted: May 3, 2009
If only the swine flu was just a nursery rhyme…
This little piggy has a fever.
This little piggy just sneezed.
This little piggy feels achy.
This little piggy just wheezed.
And this little piggy went
wheeze-wheeze-wheeze-wheeze
all the way home.
The swine flu epidemic
is hardly child's play.
Much more than steal your bacon,
it can take your life away.
In Mexico, it's tragic.
The death toll's on the rise.
But not just there, it's everywhere
as one more victim dies.
This news is more than headlines.
The pigs have left the pen.
This flu will claim a whole lot more.
It's just a case of when.
Pork bellies speak of futures,
but swine flu's present tense.
Let's pray it all will soon be
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Greg Asimakoupoulos (pronounced AWESOME-uh-COPE-uh-less) is an ordained minister, published author and chaplain to a retirement community in the Pacfic Northwest. Greg maintains a blog called Rhymes and Reasons, which he graciously provides to SeniorLifestyle.Greg's writings have now been assembled in book form. See the SeniorLifestyle Store. • E-mail the author (moc.loa@veRemosewA*) • Author's website (personal or primary**)
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