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Incubating Hope
Ring-a-ring ‘o rosie
A pocket full of posies,
A-tishoo, a-tishoo
We all fall down
Ring-a-ring ‘o rosie
A pocket full of posies
A-tishoo, a-tishoo
We don’t fall down
No, we take some penicillin
No ring-a-ring ‘o rosies
No need for a pocket full of posies
Never do we fall down with
Rifampicin, Isoniazid, Pyrazinamide and Ethambutol to the rescue!
Our knights in shining blister packs.
In the depths of the metropolitan,
In the beating heart of the city,
As the people draw breath,
A microscopic beast thrives
The mycobacterium that grows resistant
That’s how it claims all its victims
Our Knights tackle the enemy
To no avail.
It only ever grows stronger and stronger
Soldiers are lost in battle
Knights rendered impotent, unable to protect us
We fall down, again and again
The front moves,
The war is raged in the laboratory
Our weapons: white coats and microscopes
Incubating Hope.
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