JulyPoWriMo 22

The fourth wave
sounds incongruous 
to flattening the curve 

which never really 
worked out when 
you think about it 

just a long roller coaster 
of denial that the next 
crest will be any smoother 

than the last 
we’re all in this together 
which is why some of us 

keep putting masks on 
while others wait and see 
when it will be their turn 

to face facts infection 
is inevitable for those 
who don’t believe in science 

or anything really why else 
insist on dying so rapidly 
inherently unnecessarily 

a miracle those who are 
holding it together keep 
holding us together