An Epidemic, They Say Poem by Donal Mahoney

An Epidemic, They Say



Where I live the press says
teen use of heroin is epidemic.
I thought an epidemic

was a widespread disease
afflicting thousands caught in
the wrong place at the right time

as might happen when mosquitoes
bring in the zika virus and inject
as many people as they can.

There's a difference in the two.
Unlike victims of the zika virus,
teens inject heroin themselves.

Sunday, May 22, 2016
Topic(s) of this poem: addiction,drugs,teenage
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