VENDOR POETRY

I DIDN'T GET POLIO

BY JEN A.

"Hope lies in dreams, in imagination, and in the courage of those who dare to make dreams into reality" - Jonas Salk

Back in the day

Before political

Crackpots and blowhards

(Who don't know anything about Well...anything)

Ruled the world

A Jewish virologist

The son if immigrants

Used tens of thousands of

Immortal HeLa cells

From a Black woman

Then replicated at

Tuskegee Carver Research Foundation

(The research facility that George Washington Carver Built with his own savings)

Under the supervision of Two Black doctors

To gift the world

The groundbreaking

Lifesaving vaccine For the poliomyelitis virus

Because of their scientific skill

And imagination

I didn't get polio

And neither did you

SOMETHING TO SAY

BY JOHN H.

When my mind seem a bit cloudy

Many times our attitude is a bit rowdy

We have to know that Jesus is always here

Trust and believe and have no fear

Of all the things to do, we must love

Only way we can spend eternity with our father up above

All through the day we find time to pray

Jesus loves when his children have something to say.