covid-19

​crown of thorns

corona
crown of sun
coronavirus
crown of sun god
crown of thorns

ra angry
at carbon plague
shakes head
​thorns fall
fill breath of man

chariots parked
giant birds grounded
vessels stranded

air and water cleansed
​ra pleased
but old habits return

ra promises
more thorns
until man repents

covid cab

dream of taxi
at my curb
trip to airport
but seats full
of old people

no room for me
driver says
don’t bother
waiting
for next ride

was cab
of covid dead
on journey
to heaven
not my time to go

BP logo, Event Horizon gravity drive

spiked orbs

event horizon
deepwater horizon
british production
british petroleum
deep space hell
deep ocean hell

event horizon
coast guard patches
deepwater horizon
coast guard rescue

gravity drive oil slick
gravity drive spiked orb
bp logo spiked orb
​
promise of pain
for sins against sea
virus spiked orb

alien

​nurses in spacesuits
virus in your body
facehugger intubation
forced down your throat
no one can hear you scream

no choosing

riff on jefe
counselor to counselor

you are now at crossing
and you want to choose
but there is no 
choosing there
there is only accepting
the death to come

the choosing was done
a long time ago
when we chose liberty
over authority 
and let the virus 
run free

the apprentice

i think about it
covid comes
makes it happen

shopping for
but not buying
jigsaw puzzles
covid comes
puzzles sold out

urge boycott
of trump economy
stay at home
eat at home
covid comes
jobs lost

watch porn
man complains
i can’t breathe
covid comes
i can’t breathe

my apprentice
dream of power
floods world
with buckets
of covid

​The Sorcerer's Apprentice

sorcery link
covid hospital
falcon van
power of ra

my bad
or not
​
being a demigod
means
never having to say
you're sorry

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Images  COVID-19 virus, CDC, public domain; BP logo ® British Petroleum, fair use; Event Horizon gravity drive © Paramount Pictures, fair use; The Sorcerer's Apprentice, 1882, drawing by Ferdinand Barth, public domain