Tuesday, August 18, 2020

day THIRTEEN HUNDRED and NINE

teenagers

the teenagers
don’t care
about a global pandemic

while the rest of us are packed
on a subway car with masks

trying not to suck in
each other’s poison breath

the teenagers
aren’t wearing masks

they’re shouting
they’re running around the train

singing and dancing and having a ball

one of them
is wearing a milwaukee braves hat

oh, what would henry aaron think?

the teenagers
are eating mcdonald’s
and throwing food

spreading their aerosols
all over the train car

they laugh and giggle
under signs about wearing a mask

they graffiti
the ones telling us to social distance

the teenagers
get in each other’s face and spit

because their life
is so dumb and ignorant
that it’s almost magical

the teenagers
don’t care about a global pandemic

they are all
id and ego

bulletproof and invincible

in need of constant
entertainment and fun

the teenagers
don’t care
about a global pandemic

or even if they end up
killing us all.

--John Grochalski

                                    

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