Tuesday, December 1, 2020

They are Disinfecting Venice - poem

 

Lawrence Hall

Mhall46184@aol.com

https://hellopoetry.com/lawrence-hall/

poeticdrivel.blogspot.com

 

They are Disinfecting Venice

 

I have been trying to find out; no one will tell me the truth; they are

disinfecting Venice. Do you know why?

 

-Death in Venice

 

We live on islands in the virus-time

Shored in by disease and uncertainty

Waves of uncertainty, rumor, and fear

The deaths of friends bumping against us at night

 

Delivery trucks are our vaporetti

Ferrying our supplies across the Styx

That separates our then away from now

With imaginings outsourced from Lethe.com

 

They are burning stimulus checks in the streets

To disinfect us against reality

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