Who’s coughing today in Singapore
Wakes up with body ache in Baltimore
Who’s sneezing uncovered in Racine
Puts me at risk here, and everywhere in between
Nine billion of us breathe as one
You can feel it in the breeze
That moves the clouds by the sun
So by measure of our ex-and-inhalations
We are all one vast inter-breathing nation
Nose to nose and mouth to mouth
Breathing each other from north to south
Intimate as lovers on a couch
In ecstasy or despair
We’re always sharing the same air
My oxygen and your C‑O-2
Form the prayers of, you guessed it
Christians, Muslims, and Jews
So with no place to escape, not here nor there
When we quarrel and the breath comes faster
Do we not court even more disaster
Our respirations had better be safe and sweet
In every hemisphere, on every street
Or the whole world gasps and falls
Infect one of us, infect us all.
Ted Littleford
Who's coughing today in Singapore
Wakes up with body ache in Baltimore
Private SST? You cannot fly commercial from Singapore to BWI in less than a day, or without a connection, which would mean waking up somewhere other than Baltimore.