9.26.2011

Poliomyelitis

by Joel

It zaps you first at two
    or
       thereabouts
then
     some fifty years later
 starts
      zapping you again
         zap
             zap
                zap
Yet exult not
    you post-Salk child
         thinking,
             "Than this,
what
      could
            be
                worse,"
                     Zap
is sewn
     into the fabric
         of the
             universe.