Sunday, July 19, 2020

Inconclusive...

Source: Stanford Blood Center FAQ on Coronavirus and Blood Donation
© 11 July 2020, the Griot Poet

It’s an awesome accounting trick
When you endure a jammed Q-tip
Up your nose determining if you’re COVID sick,

Karl Rove started this,
“Creating their reality.”
During the Bush/Cheney junta

It’s appropriate that Greg Abbott
And Dan “death cult” Patrick
Have some hand in this

Waiting twenty days,
Losing smell and scent
You are getting results that make you say: WTF?

Don’t press your luck
On any of this making sense:

“Inconclusive”
Isn’t usually sought by a party that values
Bronze Age, scriptural certainty,

“Inconclusive”
Is a classification of the pandemic
For the dishonest, or incompetent,

“Inconclusive”
Isn’t a category reported,
Or need be

Artificially driving down
Official infection counts, meaning
The actual reality is probably heinous,

Arizona, Florida, Oklahoma; Texas,
Red states prematurely opening up based on
Magical thinking

From the orange pied piper
Of fantasy scheming,

And unprecedented as Texas
Will eventually have to get
Refrigerator trucks

To pile bodies of the dead up
Increasing our feelings of dread,
Like Lincoln Log Lollipops on Long Island,
Overrunning funeral homes and crematoriums,
The cause of death noted with the missive

On toe tags in Texas, saying: “inconclusive.”

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