The Number One Athlete

Invest in your physicality wisely young man

For you are a happy young man

That leaps and sprints like a youthful gazelle wished to be eaten by the lions.

Achilles’s God blessed you with special gifts.

The old man envies your ability

The old man is your number one fan.

You are their number one man.

Glued to T.V. they wish themselves that they could be on the podium.

Admiring the strength, the quickness, the energy in the stadium.

They don’t realize the hours spend in the gymnasium.

-The training, the sweat, the hours

Empowering victory comes with a sacrifice

-which lead to monetary paradise.

Yet each athlete has their shining moment.

The appointed hot shot star that will crumble down with age.

So enjoy the stage and don’t forget the old sage

-bright stars don’t shine forever.

Poem by David Bialousow

Could COVID-19 be the limiting factor of population growth?

Even though there is argument for whether viruses are living or not living factors, there are part of ecological systems that maintain evolutionary process of species. Viruses can alter the gene sequencing of our cells to make us less or more adaptable to survive. This COVID-19 virus seems like its a new form of virus that has wracked havoc across the global scale. With increasing population densities such as Wuhan China its not even a matter of chance, but a period of time till a new virus brings havoc to our population densities. A virus could be natures way of controlling exponential population growths.
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