© 16 September 2020, the Griot Poet
Wearing masks doesn’t appear in the US Constitution,
Neither does “no shirt, no shoes: NO SERVICE.”
It was a small step from anti-vaxxers,
To anti-maskers,
The same tinfoil hats,
That think the earth is flat,
Instead of metal insulation,
The mark of the beast,
Upon their heads
Is red with the stencil letters: MAGA,
Ironically manufactured in China,
Not a preponderance of Melanin,
But Carotene is close enough!
The same follower
Blew cigarette smoke at my mask
Because he knows his embers will whiff past
That had a positive message:
“We’re all in this together.”
Quoting Eugene Gu, MD on Twitter:
“To achieve a herd immunity of 60%, around 200 million
Americans need to catch the coronavirus, and 3 million Americans need to die.
Herd mentality believes this all needs to happen because it is too hard to wear
a mask, stay 6 feet away from others, and listen to scientists.”
Whether my red hat
Friend is on Twitter,
His attitude and demeanor figure
Into the demographic
Launched 40 years ago by The Gipper
In Philadelphia, Mississippi.
Not sure where it is?
It was the site
Of the KKK murders
Of Goodman, Cheney, and Schwerner,
Two Jewish Americans and a Black Man
Executed for the audacity
Of registering minorities
For the voting franchise,
The “wink and nod.”
Gave cover to Dixiecrats
To become Reagan Democrats,
They are the grandparents
Of the same human bile
Showing up with guns at faux “free the state” rallies,
Who are climate change and science deniers,
That think systemic racism doesn’t exist,
Except for uneducated, white “Christians.”
Who’s great lament
Is, they couldn’t practice,
Their bigotry openly,
“Make America ‘great’ again,”
Until they raised
A graven Orange image
In a demographic desert,
Helped by the same corporate forces,
Attacking science, arts, and education,
That muddied the dangers,
Of smoking, environment, segregation,
And climate change: for-profit,
Propping up false prophets,
Russian demons,
And rambling, Twitter beasts,
Without intention,
My red hat friend’s cigarette smoke,
Into my mask,
Unknown to him, unmasked is the real source of his consternation!
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