Sunday, July 12, 2020

A Room of My Own: Real News about This Barefaced Lie

Eighty-Ninth Entry, Coronavirus Poetry Diary

Any resemblance to current events or actual locales, or to living persons, is not coincidental.

blinking EXIT
down the hospital hallway
six feet apart
from a line of masked generals
the masked President

In a dimly lit attic room where I shelter my time and my drunken shadow, I doom-scroll for the latest update: New Coronavirus Cases in U.S. Soar Past 68,000, Shattering Record.

1 comment:

  1. My tanka prose was "inspired" by this "shocking" CNN news, "Trump wears a mask during visit to wounded service members at Walter Reed," accessed at https://www.cnn.com/2020/07/11/politics/trump-walter-reed-visit-mask/index.html

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