Thread by @OutragePoet, This is a thread of the poems I'm writing during the coronavirus [...]

This is a thread of the poems I'm writing during the coronavirus crisis. I'll add more. I feel compelled to document this event. I hope they connect if you happen to read them. Thanks.

#writingCommunity #CoronavirusOutbreak

“Masque of the Red Virus” https://link.medium.com/AQz1QXZdV4

Masque of the Red Virus

Stuff a rag in your ragged mouth. Now, scream. Cough. Taste the blood in the back of your throat. That is the flavor of panic.

https://link.medium.com/AQz1QXZdV4

“Corona” by Jay Sizemore https://link.medium.com/YmTnyHaeV4

Corona

Does the whiskey help me sleep or will I always see the crack in the coffin shining its light into my one open eye?

https://link.medium.com/YmTnyHaeV4

“19 ways of looking at a virus” by Jay Sizemore https://link.medium.com/oH7et5a5I4

19 ways of looking at a virus

Covid-1

https://link.medium.com/oH7et5a5I4

“Carrier” by Jay Sizemore https://link.medium.com/dLRMXmnmL4

Carrier

It seems unlikely that I’ll die strapped to a chair, a woman with slicked back hair demanding the codes to the safe or the encryption…

https://link.medium.com/dLRMXmnmL4

“PANDEMIC” by Jay Sizemore https://link.medium.com/hmNZCiqqM4

PANDEMIC

In Italy the death toll doubles, hospital beds choke the halls — coughs trapped in weakened lungs.

https://link.medium.com/hmNZCiqqM4

“National Emergency” by Jay Sizemore https://link.medium.com/oHUEG79cQ4

National Emergency

They’re digging mass graves in the deserts of Iran, with too many bodies to bury and more on the way.

https://link.medium.com/oHUEG79cQ4

“An Ode to Toilet Paper” by Jay Sizemore https://link.medium.com/EMnxAmdGS4

An Ode to Toilet Paper

This poem will not go viral but the world outside is going to shit, and who has enough coffee to survive this apocalypse of bullshit?

https://link.medium.com/EMnxAmdGS4

“Hope in this time of Covid-19” by Jay Sizemore https://link.medium.com/Zt1G0I1FU4

Hope in this time of Covid-19

It hurts to breathe as if I inhaled a cloud a cloud of fiberglass dust, it hurts to bear witness to this constant stream this constant…

https://link.medium.com/Zt1G0I1FU4

“Prayer to Saint Corona” by Jay Sizemore https://link.medium.com/ilZVCk2aW4

Prayer to Saint Corona

Saint Corona, Patron Saint of pandemics, please hear my prayer: do not allow me to make myself prisoner of my own paranoia,

https://link.medium.com/ilZVCk2aW4

“Heroes of the Pandemic” by Jay Sizemore https://link.medium.com/4e2X2rFTX4

Heroes of the Pandemic

No days off for nurses, for doctors, for epidemiologists caught in a losing race against time, lives held like water in a bucket with…

https://link.medium.com/4e2X2rFTX4

https://medium.com/@jaysizemore/apocalypse-fever-2508e7689012

Apocalypse Fever

I want to buy a gun. Maybe it’s something I’ll never need, but there’s a cold comfort in steel and the physics of force.

https://medium.com/@jaysizemore/apocalypse-fever-2508e7689012

“Biological Warfare” by Jay Sizemore https://link.medium.com/lZ4eWqMlZ4

Biological Warfare

I’ve contracted the virus, yet I remain asymptomatic. I’ve become a weapon made of breath and blood, I creep close and share my love,

https://link.medium.com/lZ4eWqMlZ4

“Spring Break 2020” by Jay Sizemore https://medium.com/@jaysizemore/spring-break-2020-97faa7e8907a

Spring Break 2020

The beaches of Florida are packed, a prism of sun glare waves and oiled bodies where the kids welcome death like a lover mixing drinks…

https://medium.com/@jaysizemore/spring-break-2020-97faa7e8907a

“Together” by Jay Sizemore https://link.medium.com/LwqD7DbL74

Together

In Oregon the strippers were put out of work so they started delivering food bare breasted, a service guaranteed to rush blood to the head…

https://link.medium.com/LwqD7DbL74

“EXPONENTIAL” by Jay Sizemore https://link.medium.com/qHn9r7br94

EXPONENTIAL

If every three days, the numbers double

https://link.medium.com/qHn9r7br94

“The Chinese Virus” by Jay Sizemore https://medium.com/@jaysizemore/the-chinese-virus-504dc4246c3b

The Chinese Virus

Where surgical masks become scarce and latex gloves get slippery with sweat, the nurses are wearing plastic trash bags in ICU wards.

https://medium.com/@jaysizemore/the-chinese-virus-504dc4246c3b

“Just Bones” by Jay Sizemore https://link.medium.com/M7uIGyide5

Just Bones

~after Maggie Smith

https://link.medium.com/M7uIGyide5

“Conspiracy theory” by Jay Sizemore https://link.medium.com/SA7Xn05mj5

Conspiracy theory

Covid-19 was created in a lab, invented by the Chinese, coordinated by the Russians as a bio-weapon to weaken the world for the communist…

https://link.medium.com/SA7Xn05mj5

“I remember my normal life” by Jay Sizemore https://link.medium.com/4AaVwrSHj5

I remember my normal life

I remember my normal life, the ease and malaise of it, the somber saunter of routine.

https://link.medium.com/4AaVwrSHj5

“When Baseball is Cancelled” by Jay Sizemore https://medium.com/@jaysizemore/when-baseball-is-cancelled-745f211dd90d

When Baseball is Cancelled

You’re fine until your wife starts coughing and death takes on the size and shape of a garbage bag filled with worn out shoes, every shoe…

https://medium.com/@jaysizemore/when-baseball-is-cancelled-745f211dd90d

“What do you have to lose?” by Jay Sizemore https://link.medium.com/zIyuRdOht5

What do you have to lose?

It’s so easy to focus on the negative, when you know every breath contains the possibility of your death:

https://link.medium.com/zIyuRdOht5

“Some Good News” by Jay Sizemore https://link.medium.com/29vhPpn4t5

Some Good News

The good news is you probably won’t die today, you probably won’t die tomorrow, the minuscule odds fluctuate like chaos that lives…

https://link.medium.com/29vhPpn4t5

“Things Could Be Worse” by Jay Sizemore https://link.medium.com/8tWOCuLGv5

Things Could Be Worse

~for John Prine

https://link.medium.com/8tWOCuLGv5

“The Custom of Shaking Hands” by Jay Sizemore https://link.medium.com/A0J6PKiPz5

The Custom of Shaking Hands

That was the year they stopped shaking hands, the year the porch lights turned green across the neighborhoods and backstreets of Kentucky…

https://link.medium.com/A0J6PKiPz5

“Easter of the Pandemic, 2020” by Jay Sizemore https://link.medium.com/0qq5QET5C5

Easter of the Pandemic, 2020

Plastic pastel clamshell eggs tucked into bunches of bright green grass, when I was a child some held dollar bills,

https://link.medium.com/0qq5QET5C5

“FATHOMS” by Jay Sizemore https://link.medium.com/p5BiLeoIE5

FATHOMS

It was the worst of times, it was the worst of times, grief became the burden of attempting to wear two hundred thousand veils, and the…

https://link.medium.com/p5BiLeoIE5

“When the quarantine ends” by Jay Sizemore https://link.medium.com/H6szcCDsG5

When the quarantine ends

I hope to escape this digital cocoon, that we all emerge from our homes like cicadas breaking free of their husks, glistening green and…

https://link.medium.com/H6szcCDsG5

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