The Known Unknown
A Pandemic Poem
It’s hard to understand a global pandemic
when you don’t trust anything on the news
and certainly not something that is trending
You think it’s all overblown until it’s not
or until someone coughs in your presence
even though they just have a tickle in their throat
You now look at them like Outbreak patient #1
because our modern society does not know
how to act and react to real things in our world
It’s…