Epidemiology

Travellust

My name is Christopher, they named the egg after me. I think of solutions so simple others cannot see them. Those who joined me on my travels and those who came after me are reproached for bringing back to the god-fearing world not only treasures from faraway lands but also unknown diseases, plagues and death. Is that just?

Mobility and travellust have increased and with them the danger that contagions once confined to a single region might spread rapidly and turn into a world-wide catastrophe.

The efforts made by epidemiologists protect us from that. We are grateful for them and their work.

The Smile Named Immuna

Today I get away quicker

from one place to the next

quarantined location to what is surely

the mostloveliest spot on earth.

The Smile named Immuna gets around
Call me what you will my love

from your lips everything

always sounds so lovely

for a long time we traveled

and now come home with me

where I have a very special smile

waiting that is so looking forward to

the moment when it can lie against your lips

With this parathought we fall from the sky

and in this instance an infectious smile befalls us

one that sinks its teeth into us devours us

it tears and bites and pains and names itself

after the memory of yet another ailment

if it comes down from the mountains to the coast

mountain fever

if it comes up the coast to the mountains

now it’s coastal fever

and if it comes from the heavens to fertile ground

it’s deplored as divine fever

and if it moves from the lower elevations to the heights

it’s cursed as earthly fever.

Travel is Immuna’s greatest delight

travelling

nurtured by the embrace of a loved one

is death, her home

dying