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Haiku for Our Times: COVID 19 Edition
today at 7:20 am
Sometimes 17 syllables are all you need–or all you can say.
Overwhelming
COVID Virus
I look for it on Google
Find 10 billion hits.
Interconnection
The world is not flat
Despite Thomas L. Friedman
It’s a petri dish.
Leading
Rick Grimes is gone
Don’t need him for a hero
No zombies are here.
Isolation
Quarantined, alone
No way to spend a birthday
Or any day, at all.
Educate
Who will teach the kids
To read and write and do math
The teachers silently weep.
Laboratory
Yes we still work here
Corners echo with shadows
Of what is to come.
Helping
I don’t have any masks
Can’t fix a respirator
I can donate blood.
Hope
World outside frightens
Now not the time to panic
Think of life ahead.
Hate
It’s not a China
Virus that will consume us
But lack of the heart.
Sport
Tom Brady moves
From Patriots to Jaguars
No one gives a damn.
Life
James Bond goes away
Not defeated by a spy
Just by a little speck.
Remember
Love those who love you
Do the best for those who don’t
Golden Rules still count.
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