Agents of Apocalypse
By Wade R. DeYoung - Haines City, FL, United States Agents of Apocalypse --very loosely after Sandra Simonds’ Orlando Many folks champion humans,with bombs, bullets,intentional infection policies.Humans aspire to this positionprestigious,but no.They rank as amateurs. Might reptiles qualify?Crocodiles and caimanswith ivory teeth and jawslike snap trapsor rattlers, mambas,cobras, copperheads, cottonmouthsoozing venom villainous.But no. Arthropods are close contenders.Mosquitoes, tsetse flies,tiny flying vampires.Ticks, hypodermic needles of death.But no. COVID, AIDS, smallpox, yellow fever,dengue, Ebola, measles, rabies—caused by viruses,just two vector-borne.Anthrax, botulism, diphtheria,leprosy, syphilis, cholera,bubonic plague—bacteria-borne,but one vector-borne.Malaria, sleeping sickness—both arthropod-bornebut caused by protozoans.Millions of microbes,malevolence in mind,preserve the prizeas…