Bring Out Your Dead.

Bring out your dead 

they said 

during the Plague of London 

in 1665 

or so Mr Finn told us 

in history lessons 

back in 1957. 

There were pictures 

in our history books 

and red crosses on doors 

of those who had the plague. 

What the heck 

said Denis 

who cares about that 

long ago stuff.

I liked history 

I liked the stories told 

about the London back then 

and how the plague began 

and my old man said 

it was spread by rats 

and their fleas from the ships 

in the London docks 

of the times. 

I got good points 

for that essay 

given to me by Mr Finn. 

Bring out your dead 

he said they said 

and stayed in my mind 

inside my schoolboy head.

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[John the Baptist]

The ghastliness of life before modern medicines is beyond the grasp of most people today. We just don't realize how fortunate we are, Covid and all.