A Retrospective On The Pandemic’s MAGA Covidiot

Five poems about how poorly conservative America reacted to our generation’s pandemic.

Photo (cropped) by Dimitar Donovski on Unsplash

Antivaxxer

she had many takes

they were all hot and all of them bad

right field conspiracies from internet curriculums

and a facebook diploma of algorithmic lies.

Pure Pathetic

elderly beer-bellied babies walk into the setup

at the decatur farm progress show

with the illinois mask mandate in effect indoors

and they walk into our building labeled mask mandatory

and the geezer toddlers are handed free masks and asked to put them on

and they pretend they don’t hear or insult the governor

and they walk inside the shared closed space mask hanging from one ear

and they let it fall off shrugging

at what incomprehensible technology a mask is

then put it in their pocket and walk around in the space as if all of this

this elaborate national masking and distancing strategy