We All Need Mad Scientists
Wonderland Poetry Prompt Challenge Day 12
A nonet poem for Ellie Hoovs challenge:
People said I was crazy as hell
To infect people with disease
Mad, bad, and unethical
My experiment won
Smallpox now be gone
Smart or lucky
I showed them
I’m not
Mad
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[Author's Note: A brilliant experiment with no moral inhibitions. The Smallpox virus killed hundreds of millions of people. It left many more scarred and disabled. Known as the “Angel of Death," we are no longer familiar with it these days. The last case was reported in 1977.
It is the first and only disease so far that humanity has successfully eradicated. Edward Jenner, an English doctor, was thought to be mad when he used draconian methods, using pus from a blister of a person infected with smallpox, to develop the cure.]
Till next time,
Calvin
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Calvin London
I write fiction, non-fiction and poetry about all things weird and wonderful, past and present. Life is full of different things to spark your imagination. All you have to do is embrace it - join me on my journey.
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