American River Review 2022 - copy - Flipbook - Page 17
Pandemic Blues
(For Marty)
‘Covid has magnified every existing inequality’ – Melinda Gates
Did you hear
Or did they
shut your ears
Another poor man down
A victim of authority
Who was not a priority
Couldn’t order the rupture
When the Corona came
What a vision
Took his humble living
It was given away
When the Corona came
Inequality shook him
Racism cooked him
His poverty spoke
They set the rope
When the Corona came
When the Corona came
No plan left
When the Corona came
Did you hear
about the man
whose body was found During the pandemic
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