Amber Anderson
News Live in Reel Time / Shelter in Place
I can’t stop reading the news I’ve been
obsessively refreshing the page for updates I
watch the death count climb like
waiting for the ball to drop on new years eve and
it feels fucking morbid.
Big Brother is towering and
whoever his shadow lands on
has to cower in place.
It’s like a game of red-light/green-light
that no one can stop playing—but in this
version if you don’t follow the rules you
die instead of just being out.
Amber Anderson is a single mother returning to college in her thirties. Her poetry has appeared in Pacific Wave.
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