Samantha Fain
Golden Shovels After Trump’s Comments on the Coronavirus
#2
people didn’t worry enough / all casual like yeah so what / stores ran out of bleach / this
meant people were using it / either to clean / or drink / and die / the real question is
why the spring-breakers still guzzle beers on the beach / when they’re pretty much just
multiplying the petri dish / playing chicken in the ocean / when they should be stiff / a
skewer of sunburnt bodies bottled / like glued ships permanently / during this temporary
vacation / a lot of us ask one another / if we’re bored / if we’re surviving this moment
of crisis / of chaos / of death / and stuff / and our answers usually always consist of
waiting it out / you know / eating carrots / sucking oranges / really trying this time
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Samantha Fain is an undergraduate student studying creative writing at Franklin College. Her work has appeared in Rattle Poets Respond, The Indianapolis Review, SWWIM, Utterance, and other journals. She tweets at @samcanliftacar.
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