March 19, 2019Poem

Pandemic Pandemonium

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Pandemic Pandemonium

Community breakdown

Is the only success

In the free for all

Isolation desperation

Naming and shaming strangers

A prerequisite

Of the ignorance

Regarding infection

Scientific rejection

In favour of chaos

And food shortages

Medical academicals

Are humanitarians

Risking their lives

For the wider good

Of public health

When so many people

Think we live

In a dystopian fantasy

Where dog eats dog

As the strong survive

On each other’s bones

Until all they have left

Are the scraps

And a few sheets

Of recycled toilet paper