Out

Cast out.

Their sin?

To have fanned the flames of fear and paranoia,
diseased and untouchable,
the curse of certain contagion.
Then, their act of survival stigmatised:

Ostracised

by extended family (orphaned as they are),
friends, landlords, mosques, football clubs,
market stallholders, motorbike taxi drivers, et al.

Leprous Ebola outcast.

© Helen McIntosh
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November 2015