TRANSCENDENTAL ERADICATION

 

via sorbitol traps and spice trade maps

they arrived in a Firebird Spittle,

moaned about the wind and the turn

in the weather with their

fangs dissolving and roots hanging out.

 

In the cavernous pit stop of the mouth

the molar bears huddled-

the lick of extinction

would soon take them out

and all who witnessed crumbled,

collapsed into knots then escaped

on a cough-

that felt like levitation.

 

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In a new life in the old world

where drones were clumping,

we sang songs about peace

and how fish were falling

out of the sky.

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*Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb) is a bacterial pathogen that causes Tuberculosis (TB), a devastating disease that is the leading infectious cause of death in the world. Mtb has developed cunning tactics to survive in the human body for decades. Research has discovered that it feeds on certain sugars thus possessing a deadly ‘sweet tooth’. Scientists are currently working on how to starve it.

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