[stylist] Poem: Measles

[Bill Outman]

Good morning again, folks.  

 

Who would ever believe a poem could be made out of the subject of measles,
which has been in the news lately because of the recent epidemic.  There
have been a minority of irresponsible doctors and celebrities who have been
advocating against vaccinations.  As some background, I represent the other
side of this story, having been affected by disease prior to the
availability of the measles, mumps, rubella(MMR) vaccine.  My visual
impairment was originally caused by congenital rubella syndrome.  

 

Also in the news of late is the case of the Saudi blogger who was trying to
push his society in a more progressive direction and was sentenced to
flogging and jail because of it.  That was the inspiration of my reference
to flogging in the poem that follows my signature.  As some further
background, my mother who is a career R. N. was working in a small town
general practice in IL where I was born, and she got ill while carrying me,
thus resulting in my circumstances.  

 

On the one hand, we have people here who have freedom and abuse it it so as
to put others in jeopardy while others wish they had such freedom or wish
they had some say in their circumstances either in the past, present or
future.  

 

So here is what I have, below my signature.  

 

Bill Outman 

 

Measles 

 

I heard someone wrote a blog.  

It said, "Don't get the shot for measles." 

That person I'd like to flog, 

That person is one of the weasels. 

 

I came when there was no choice. 

It made me an odd fella. 

With nature I had no voice, 

Before my birth it decreed the damage of rubella. 

 

People listen to science that's bad.  

It really makes me mad.  

Paranoid worry about ebola 

While justifying vaccine ignorance that's crapola.  

 

For compassion and mercy we will not flog 

Those whose knowledge is in a gfog. 

I'll be your buddy 

If you at least do diligent study.  

 

 

 



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