MayPoWriMo 28

Lifting restrictions kept normal in check 
now normal is suddenly coming back 
with a vengeance witness democracy 
dying without supermajority 
will we ever know what the lab unleashed 
or behave like citizens of the world 
better crowd already crowded spaces 
so that species waiting seventeen years 
remain submerged under concrete we paved 
to get from point a to point b faster 
or build bigger houses on smaller plots 
of land and stories wasting our treasure 
on keeping up with neighbors never met 
normal: a masked face we cannot forget