The Quarantine Chronicles, Day 43

DAY 43: Is it -- all about that bass? --

all about money? ca-ching?

Life and life and death

pain loss sadness tragedy plague

my mother just died

my uncle Bob, my kid was strong

an athlete -- how did you get

sick? -- stay inside, with pride

help the helpers help

you know the economy be 

damned, there are more

important things than money --

wait, a ventilator costs 17 thousand,

do I hear 20, 20, do I hear 30 thou? --

my state my hospital my town is

broke, those checks for the unemployed

vanished? we need our beans and

rice! -- I'm cutting your funds, I'm asking

for donations, I'm donating

.0001 of our brand's yearly profits 

without cutting my own bonus, how much

did Mr. Billionaire donate so far? why

doesn't he build COVID hospitals?

W.H.O.? and we need to open the donut shops
and the "massage" parlors for a stroke

to get the economy up and gushing --

while you can hear the shush of

last breaths if you listen intently -- we need to

get the production-consumption wheel

spinning -- while the streets are

still full of coffins, coffins blocking

every road to the city center, coffins

with no money inside, and an

empty coffin here with your

name on it

written on a post-it

not embossed in gold

leaf yet.