A Room of My Own: Anything New Under the Sun?

Two Hundred and Tenth Entry, Coronavirus Poetry Diary

a flood of memories

from the black hole of the past ...

three white kids

ride their bikes by me

yelling SARS, SARS 

four years of Trump

and four seasons of Covid ...

I take sleeping pills

and curl into a race-blind dream,

the fifth corner of my world

Added: Two Hundred and Eleventieth Entry

written after Biden signed the Covid-19 Hate Crimes Act

The "New Yellow Peril"

kung flu ...

on a white man's face

this meaty grin

another old Asian man

knocked to the ground

job growth slows sharply

Go back to China

this voice at the back door

of my quarantined mind

FYI: A Chinese-American civil rights group is suing Trump for $22.9m for calling COVID-19 the 'China Virus' and 'Kung Flu'. That's $1 for each Asian American and Pacific Islander living in the US. Joshua Zitser, Business Insider, May 22, 2021

Added: Two Hundred and Twentieth Entry

jump, jump, jumping

on the backyard trampoline

made in Wuhan ...

now I'm six feet higher

than the white neighbor's fence