He wouldn’t wear a
mask, not to shop or browse, not
for him or for you.
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he wouldn’t wear a mask
haiku for 10/28/20
Tag: public health
benched
haiku for 10/20/20
A football team with
too many positives must
sit out the season.
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witches and black cats, too
haiku for 10/19/20
Carve a jack-o’-lan-
tern, put it in a mask. Hang
a skeleton. Same.
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the reading-is-contagious book club
haiku for 10/9/20
The ladies, without
masks, piled into the living
room to gossip, gloat.
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where to sit in a pandemic
haiku for 9/28/20
The signs on every
other table say to stay
away. The rest? Fine!
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the wait for a vaccine
haiku for 9/24/20
Racing for a cure,
taking all the shortcuts, most
of us won’t partake.
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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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bugaboo
haiku for 9/4/20
amoral adversary
haiku for 8/24/20
The virus doesn’t
punish bad behavior or
reward good. It just is.
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pandemic plan zero
haiku for 8/21/20
We’ve tried absolute-
ly nothing, and yet the num-
bers keep going up.
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