day FOURTEEN HUNDRED and FORTY EIGHT

Cognitive Dissonance in ER

ER nurse treats
gravely ill patients
who insist they
couldn’t have Covid

What is making them
ill must be something
else

“Covid doesn’t exist.”
they insist, literally
screaming it until they
are intubated

or they die.

“It’s like a fucking
horror movie that
never end.” The nurse
says.

Trump brags, in one
minute TV appearance,

the stock market hit an
all time high, and
the vaccines are here.

Don’t let the door
hit you on the way out.

--Alan Catlin