In the Streets
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The viruses had first and last names Until there were too many to count We grafted masks onto their faces And by that point, what did names Matter? We locked them in boxes Sealed within larger boxes Built in ten days, but still They leaked out into the streets Bumping randomly into people Who could not see. Watch for them We whispered, but to us they all looked The same. We practiced saying plague A fun word, not knowing the other ways We are doomed. We stalked the side alleys With déjà vu, feeling we'd done this Before, back in another lifetime-spying On neighbors, reporting family Misery enforced as baseline In a way, we are all the same disease To survive humans, you have to give up Humanity-so says the tyrant within Our lungs cracked like sheet ice. Breath Whistled through our veins like steam. We searched For sickness, but there was only sharpness, like guilt
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