A Tall Tale

We can meekly hypothesize but cannot

in conscience give credence to the

unthinkable of a deliberate unleashing 

of a zoonotic pathogen to destabilize the 

world order, rocket the global economy 

into shattered failure and in the process

see the deaths of five million humans

for this is a diabolic strategy that no

human agency could ever consider

and so no, neither should those who

hold Beijing in grave suspicion that

the CCP has neither scruples nor morals.

See how Beijing reacts at the very hint

of the coronavirus rescinding planned-for

disappearance where all members of 

the world community save one is now

wearied and broken resigned to coping

with a threat that may wane but never die.

China whose gift to the unready world

has been monumental is itself adamant it

will never rest until its monster collapses

shrivels and dies. At least in China.