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Chytrid fungus

Persistent and pervasive

No corner of our world

Remains uninvaded

Global connection fuels plagues

Once Pandora’s box is open hope is lost…

As a biologist I’ve seen the trends, data, the facts

Tears flow from my heart. To care is to grieve

Outlooks worsen becoming grim

Frogs flow down the stream. Bloated and dead.

Our legacy shall be

Our fetid scar

Of wastes

Of extinction

We need to change…

Chytrid destroys

Frog skin function

And makes it unable

To balance electrolytes

Cardiac arrest

soon follows the degradation

Of ion channels

(Sodium and potassium)

Writhing in pain

Hearts wrung by palpitations

Amphibians pass away

Populations starting to fade

Zoospores

burn their way

Into the flesh

Proteases

Increase

Sloughing of skin

Spreading and killing

Frog health failing

Rheobatrachus silus

Taudactylus diurnus

Anaxyrus baxteri

Atelopus longirostris

Atelopus ignescens

Rheobatrachus vitellinus

Isthmohyla debilis

Incilius fastidious

Incilius holdridgei

Are all fucking dead