Spoiler Alert: Ebola by Chaun Ballard

Spoiler Alert: Ebola

 Chaun Ballard. Raised in both Missouri and California, is living with his wife in Ghana, West Africa, where they teach at a local area school.

It almost sounds like a sci-fi thriller.

  [Exposition] Deafening helicopters thrash to cratered earth,
                      moon-men trapeze along the horizon,

 [Rising Action] and a child is taken.

In villages like Koinadugu,

storylines like these repeat themselves—

            [Climax] Child breaks free from alien grip, runs to the

                                                             arms of her father. Both flee into the forest.

What comes next is expected—

[Falling Action] Tracers are contracted, survivors sent to quell

                                                   galactic suspicion, villagers revolt against

                                                                           isolation centers, the infected bleed out—

   Moon-men return in dramatic fashion,

and cinematic junkies grow weary of the same old plot.

It’s always some poor country,

some unfortunate body of misfits 

hemorrhagic fevers loathe.