Prarie du Chien?

[Bandwraith at aol.com]

or Chien du Prarie? Either way, keep yer head down,
Monroe. And remember, everything's bass ackwards
in Vineland.

Monkeypox! It's enough to make anyone paranoid, i'n't?
First, all that smallpox bioterror hype and the panic to
to get the dwindling stocks of old vaccine up to spec- then,
the fact that almost everyone, even the frontline healthcare
foax, balked at taking it. Now, out of nowhere comes...
Monkeypox! a virus that's been around forever, is nasty,
but not too deadly, and, just happens to be a close enough
cousin to smallpox that the vaccine will work against it, too.

Phil's Pocket Pets? Gambian Giant Rats? Indeed. Where's the
New York Times? The Washington Post? Whatever happened
to imvestigative reporting? Woodward and Bernstein?

Gone where the woodbine twineth, no doubt- 86'd and
forgotten...

And what is the P-list but a pale spectre of what we used to
be. Those were the days.

If they come for you, needle in hand, remember two words-
(No, not Scully and Moulder, but-) oral cidofovir

respectfully