RANDOM JACK POETRY HOUR: CORONAVIRUS SERIES
Faces of Covid 19
They are only numbers
Digital abstractions
Statistical notations
Lines on a graph
Check marks on a page
They yield no emotion
Something less than real
Until the numbers have faces
Friends and families
A mother from La Jolla
Her children called her Santa Marie
A gifted athlete from Chicago
Could have made the major leagues
A promising poet from Omaha
With a dream of living overseas
A grandfather from Los Angeles
Do we mourn the elderly?
A golden child from down the street
Who’ll never know the vagaries
Of life and love and victories
Stolen by this cursed disease
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