Thursday, January 21, 2021

Vaccination Day

 RANDOM JACK POETRY HOUR: CORONAVIRUS SERIES


Vaccination Day

 

Standing in line

Late in the day

Sun in decline

Patience

 

Most are old like me

Some are young

(health workers I’m told)

Young attending old

It’s all a mystery

 

We are ordered

Organized

The line moves

At a steady pace

Then stops

As if a cog is stuck

In the wheels

Then resumes

 

Cemetery across the street

Oldest in town

Someone yells don’t do it!

From a moving vehicle

A few abandon the wait

 

It occurs to me

We are the brave ones

We want to survive

We believe in science

We believe in civilization

We’re willing to pay the price

 

The wait ends

A series of questions

Shot delivered

Twenty one days before

A second shot

Ninety five percent protection

From the plague

 

Bravo!

Well done!

Science triumphs

The species survives

 

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