Let Them Eat Cake
We stumbled through the days
Our enemy: COVID 19
Our leaders made displays
Of waging war and venting spleen
As if Nature could be conquered
By bluster and acetylene
We waited for assurance
Guidance and solidarity
We waited with endurance
Surprised at our temerity
For who knew without insurance
Who would weather such uncertainty?
. . .
It dawned, on us, like warm dough rising
At a distance: our togetherness,
We realized by compromising,
A full harvest of our meagerness
We saw who was essential
We saw who was self-serving
We saw who was presidential
We saw who was deserving
We stumbled through the days
Of lock down and of quarantine
But marched out of the night
With torches and guillotine
Perhaps just metaphorical,
not those of past fraternity,
But, sharp, smooth, and horrible
Polished for bright modernity
