Wade's Daily Haiku

something in the air

haiku for 9/23/20

Health care’s finest are
sitting down to lunch while they’re
poisoning the room.

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haiku for 9/8/20

The suffering has
no meaning. The dreams and lives
lost were for nothing.

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haiku for 9/7/20

We prize work, but
not equally, not fully.
Our values must change.

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haiku for 9/4/20

It seems risky to
re-open society
as the virus roams.

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haiku for 8/21/20

We’ve tried absolute-
ly nothing, and yet the num-
bers keep going up.

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haiku for 8/19/20

The other countries
did it right in beating the
pandemic. We balked.

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haiku for 8/14/20

Schools practice social
distancing for teachers, kids
(except for football).

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haiku for 8/13/20

Set them in front of
a screen, or set them loose in
a germy classroom.

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haiku for 8/4/20

Neighbors having big
parties, coworkers touching
all the coffee cups.

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