The Quarantine Chronicles, Day 4

DAY 4: Get in the car and drive!

Drive, man, drive

TV full of car commercials right now

as if we're all planning our escape

across the Mojave the Australian

Outback and Siberia
flat out, hammer down

tankards of gasoline on the roof

to that promised land where

everything you touch
not covered in deadly viral germs ...

I died and went to heaven anyway

through the pearly gates and saw

St. Pete with an N95 mask on saying

you didn't touch the gate

without gloves on, did you?

Down, sinner infected, down you go!

Today, I may finish one project

and start another -- what the hell

spring cleaning, canning, quilting

it feels okay yet I'm afraid

if I get sick I might not get well

if I don't get sick I might crack

either way, either way

I'm at bay.