Poet In (Their Own) Residence

Say the vaccines don’t takeagainst some variantand after the fourth and fifth wavesslam our surfer heads even deeper into the sand, and the governmentbeing the government, respondswith its regularly scheduled gaslighting,so that in waves six and seven we’re still livingthis world we’ve somehow arrived at,where real estate developers handle long-term careand the incredible return of investorsgets prioritized over our elders -- as ifthere was a dimension in all of time and spacewhere that made one iota of sense --then maybe, after rounds eight and nineand ten blow through us, killing and maimingwhile our politicians continueto plod along the surface of...