Monday, April 13, 2020

New Normal

RANDOM JACK POETRY HOUR: CORONAVIRUS SERIES



New Normal

Obsessive hand washing
Like monks at a monastery
In need of cleansing
Hypersensitivity to touch
Like hypochondriacs on steroids
Hoarding toilet paper and sanitizer
For the greedy live among us
Hunkered down in isolation
Like inmates on an island
Reruns and repeating news
Like an existentialist play
Stocks in freefall suspended trading
What day is it today?
Reporters in mask and gloves
Like surgeons in the operating room
Groceries by delivery
Casualty counts in the absence of war
Walls pushing ever inward
Sympathy for the poor

We survive
We make adjustments
We practice patience
We hold on to our humanity
And pray the rising death toll
Does not become the new normal

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