When I first came to Guyana over the rainforest by flight
A passenger pointed out the infamous Jonestown site
Mass murder history was not my actual purpose
There are far more features that make me less nervous
I had walked the land with a guy from New York
At the coastline nearby the home of diverse shark
Yet one day while wading near that northern beach
A catfish poked a poison fin, a sting worse than a leach
My right foot became inflamed like never before
The treatment, tribal