Sawgrass Lake April 7, 2020

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stay far away

Stay far away from me please

My thought as you approach

Something almost everyone is thinking

When we go outside our homes.

In another time this aversion response

Seen then as a symptom of mental illness 

Has become the rational way to behave

Now the whole population is affected. 

Being very afraid of the invisible threat

The miasma of minuscule droplets in the air

Dispersed unwittingly by people talking

Deposited on everything we touch.

Impossible to entirely avoid exposure

But we take what measures we can

Hoping we won’t be taken ill today

Hoping we will recover if we do.

And we are the fortunate ones

Who can stay home relatively safe

Unable to look away from the terrible news 

While we worry about those we love

This state of high anxiety is the new normal

That will continue for the foreseeable future

In this country when no immediate way exists

To do all that must be done to control it.

Not until the hospitals are out of crisis mode

Not until everyone symptomatic is tested

Not until all confirmed cases and contacts are monitored

Not until new cases abate for at least two weeks.

Not possible under our current government 

So broken as the disaster gets ever worse

When business profits rule over people's lives

Survival demands a socialist approach. 

This grim reality will slowly sink in

As the death toll touches everyone personally

The political failure to follow science dooms us

To suffer great losses until there is a vaccine.

Hammock Park April 6, 2020

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Taylor Lake April 4, 2020

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