Best Infects Poems

Bad news

Infects the teller..

The teller

Conveys news which

Is believed to have

Arisen in a fictitious

Past time..news

In the telling 

Colored with belief

Is what is happening

And not...


"The nature of bad news infects the teller."  Antony & Cleopatra (Shakespeare)...

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Crossing all borders,
  the fever befalls

Power infectious,
 —its cure now recalled

(Villanova Pennsylvania: December, 2016)...

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MASKED
How dare you demand I wear 
a mask. My civil rights are all I ask.
Force me to do so and I’ll sue.
What else is a citizen to do?

Soon she coughs and sneezes – 
Droplets float, on gentle breezes. She infects young
and old, thinks it’s just...

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1.) 
“The same waste stays un-cleaned”,
Something like that was said. 
And I’ve spent time missing, 
Must’ve thought I was dead. 
The boy says the man’s unseen, 
Technically a teen but still “man” works instead. 
Unfiltered cigarettes hit, 
Spinning bottles cause we’re too afraid to easily...

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