The H5N1 virus spreads in wild birds and livestock,
And now to pigs and people; a bomb’s timer goes, “tick, tock.”
The influenza’s breeding grounds are avian and swine:
The next pandemic’s reservoirs? A clanging, flashing sign.

A well-known disinformer has been voted into power,
An anti-vaxxer by his side; pandemic storm clouds lower.
We need new vaccines right away. Will they say, “Go ahead,”
Or counsel Ivermectin, bleach? (Another million dead?)

Remember Covid 19 and the toll junk science took?
The data well-reported, all you have to do is look.
Safe and effective vaccines were produced at “Warp Speed,” then.
But Donald pushed junk science; ignorance prevailed again.

The 1918 flu pandemic, then Covid 19
Have shown us what pandemics do; a gory, charnel scene:
Refrigerated cargo trucks with body bags in stacks,
When virus and junk science synchronized their two attacks.

The virus, now in several hosts, mutates in random ways.
New properties emerge; a spark may burst into a blaze.
Pandemic capabilities may suddenly appear,
As 1918 and as 2019 have made clear.

Is Donald Trump worth risking losing all these lives again?
Add anti-vaxxer, RFK; watch the Grim Reaper grin.
Black clouds on the horizon, H5N1 coming fast,
Will Trump mismanage this just as he blundered in the past?