Notices by Plague Poems (plaguepoems@mastodon.social)

My aunt, the doctor,
keeps sending me studies
about how this virus
has damaged people’s brains,
so in reply I told her
that I am more worried
about what this virus
has revealed about our hearts,
and so my aunt sent me a study
about how this virus
also damages people’s hearts.

It is not
that too many are living
like it is still March 2020
(back when we thought
that if we worked together
we could defeat the virus)
but that too many are living
like it is still March 2019
(back when we thought
no virus could ever defeat us).

When you hear
the pandemic referred to
as a once in a century catastrophe
please bear in mind
that such a description
is a catchy turn of phrase
and not a definitive guarantee.