Why do we keep on keeping on
In the face of such disaster
when health policy is no good for no reason
when everything supposed to be right is wrong
when the CDC says something
and the FDA says something
and somebody remarking on public confidence
says something
and the public won’t wear the masks?
What keeps frontline workers working into the night
and keeps them going in the morning
living on coffee and waiting for things to end
cleaning counters and wiping vegetables
as if some answer lay in a disinfectant
and despite those among us who
irrationally and without a doubt
are leaving their trust in
Tucker Carlson and hydroxychloroquine?
Why don’t we say just screw it
And stop trying again and again
to march into the President’s pressroom
with half an idea about the Wuhan virus
hoping he’ll have the other half
and hoping what he says will happen
when his stable genius
gets lit by something never tried
and he states will work this time?
Could it be it,
that we do all this over and over
just for those times
when a revelation may rise among us
like something ever re-birthing
a new life, another hope
something not immediately visible but
leading us to a real solution
and the salvation of the human race?
© 2020, Kenneth Koziol. All rights reserved.
