The Quarantine Chronicles, Day 96

DAY 96: Tomorrow the walls come down,

God ordered us to walk 6 times around

the city walls and on the 7th - pling - the walls

done gonna come a-tumbling down -- if

you got faith, if you believe

just a little more.

There's still sickbays full and

positives galore, no vaccine or cure

all that masking and distancing isn't

working, in the US the fascists

cause riots in the streets, cities on

fire, no masks can hide the cops

with their badges taped, we know

you, you will not reform

the KKK on our watch

society of segregation, no, 

our rights, human rights

civil rights, free speech,

the right to assemble

peaceful protest will prevail.

But the virus marches on too, in

town, in jail, in paddy wagons

police tanks, many will be touched

ruined, killed by COVID-19 and

TRUMP-20, the terrible double whammy

one-two punch, especially after

tomorrow, no holds barred, battle royal

last one standing gets a chicken

tomorrow we're free at last

free from death for the crime

of being black, free to rampage

for being a cop, free to kill

hands in your pockets, smirk

I don't want to go out, I don't

want to die, I don't want to

be invisible, mostly, I don't want 

to go on a ventilator because

the last words of the United 

States of America will be:

like George Floyd (murdered by

Derek Chauvin), Eric Garner (

murdered by Daniel Pantaleo), Elijah

McClain (murdered by Woodyard,

Rosenblatt and Roedema)

and so many more:

I. CAN'T. BREATHE.