Monday, January 18, 2021

More/less (Day 1460; Pandemic series #12)


1 year + 2 million deaths 

later   more/less   this 

new  unchanged world


< maskless   but too 

many   culling their own 

herd   some muttered   


& invisible tides of all 

we lost ebbed & surged      

subtle   toxic   we grew 


resigned to altered aisles   

recently   furtively

rearranged to conceal 


steel shelves stocked w/

lack  & ugly plastic 

bottles promising protection  


we certainly needed it

after the unthinkable   

undoable   unspeakable   


which had been said 

& done for 1,462 days

more/less


1 year + 2 million deaths 

later   a blue spark flickered 

curiously   could it be   


& wondering   itself 

a miracle   redemption or 

reprieve   deserved   after all   


had we not   at last  

succeeded in excising 1 

singularly pernicious affliction


(c) 2021 by Hannah Six

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