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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