In like a shelter-
in-place, out like a battle
over masks, distance.
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the may we were
haiku for 5/31/20
Tag: pandemic
smotherhood
haiku for 5/28/20
A working mom adds
teaching and babysitting
to her packed weekdays.
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the first hundred thousand
haiku for 5/26/20
No monument. No
flags at half-staff. Just a pile
of names and bodies.
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the dashboard courier
haiku for 5/23/20
Some die, others live.
The story’s in the digits
climbing steadily.
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pan-dilemma
haiku for 5/22/20
No matter which way
we go, we’re adrift in a
sea of bad choices.
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the when of it all
haiku for 5/20/20
Plans for the future
don’t exist. We muddle through
the endless present.
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we’re all doomed
haiku for 5/18/20
What if a virus
didn’t attack brains or bones
but plain ignorance?
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the inevitable second wave
haiku for 5/16/20
All because we did
not have patience for delayed
gratification.
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corona calendar
haiku for 5/14/20
It is either Mon-
day or Thursday or the day
before yesterday.
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petri dish nation
haiku for 5/13/20
The germs waited oh
so patiently to avenge
themselves on us all.
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