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Corona Is

"CORONA IS"


the virus now
and at night
mothers hold their young.
I sit in front of this 
typewriter,
inside these walls and 
remember all those times 
this has happened before.
all the years the paranoid 
said they were right.
all the years the vigilantes 
hid indoors. 
all the years the fear 
drove us to mental suicide. 
as one gets older,
you see the same things 
repeat:
hatred, love and yes, 
even control.
yet we still breathe,
still engage in coitus,
still laugh
still confuse ourselves 
and ask why the cat 
roams the street.
the foolish never catch 
the ferris wheel 
rolling away.
the smart know the 
sun will never dim.
and even if it does,
we'll all be long 
gone leaving behind 
confusion for those 
born after us.
we live by the virus now 
and no one has seen the 
virus has already 
completed it's work.

confusion...
man's greatest weakness.

we don't remember years,
only moments.

we are only competing 
against ourselves with 
no win available.

in these moments of the 
virus,
the world is using confusion 
to fight fear.

too young to burn,
they'll remember the year
of the corona.
too young to die,
I'll remember the moment 
the world fought a fight
that 
wasn't 
worth 
fighting.


by: Chicano Eddie
3.13.20
Copyright © | Year Posted 2020

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November 1, 2020 at 3:02 AM
Great truths written here Eddie. Clever and insightful...
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