1/300

Wait and see, and when he dies,
they'll say; "cause unknown";
But they know and they calculate,
1/300, cancers grow, people die.
The Doctors care, but they have lines and bills,
and their masters want numbers,
but in secret, to be read and summarized,
printed and boxed, and hidden behind the stairs,
while public copies are shredded and burned.
and the facts are "eyes only";
Government officials know,
what the doctors won't show.
That on that child's neck is growing,
a harbinger of death, a cancer,
that infects the land
with its invisible hands
looking innocent like snow.

Christopher Hartly Holte