COVID Spring: Against Omens
May. 8th, 2020 03:10 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
mrissaYou may take back your shipment of portents--
We don't need them. We already know.
The cracks in the floor, thank you, yes:
The ground beneath our feet is unstable. We know.
The fallen unmarked chickadee: now really
We've learned, we can go any minute. We know.
Killer hornets, Krakatoa, floods, locusts--
The scale is grand, the message trite.
We know, we know. Let's have lilacs,
Let's have sunshine, ice cream, new books
A fresh clean wall, we've already seen this writing.
Put down the chalk. We know.
We don't need them. We already know.
The cracks in the floor, thank you, yes:
The ground beneath our feet is unstable. We know.
The fallen unmarked chickadee: now really
We've learned, we can go any minute. We know.
Killer hornets, Krakatoa, floods, locusts--
The scale is grand, the message trite.
We know, we know. Let's have lilacs,
Let's have sunshine, ice cream, new books
A fresh clean wall, we've already seen this writing.
Put down the chalk. We know.
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