like a boogeyman

(haiku)

another neighbor

has come down with the virus

that makes a dozen

and I’m reluctant

to even go to the store

to buy groceries

least of all mingle

for who knows what is lurking

within every cough

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it’s like it’s out there

waiting to put asunder

every well laid plan

 almost a million dead

(haiku)

a deadly virus

hovers everywhere we go

but few give a shit

people are dying

but it is the other guy

until it is them

then they say real low

i should’ve got vaccinated

or wore my dumb mask

but no one hears them

cuz the thing about this thing

is you die alone

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our callous nation

undisciplined and stupid

pretends it’s not real