Painting by Numbers

(pandemicism)

 

I’m unsure what to say about

Those who die today

Saluting nothing

No cause but the spread of a disease

We will number them

We’ll try

Then we’ll try to

Turn them into issues

On platforms

Of lies,

Of anything but names and

All the parts

Of lives

That some carried

And bear now

 

C L Couch

 

 

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