bible-belted: pandemic one
why are tanning booths & beauty
salons open? an exquisite corpse.
bible-belted: pandemic two
on south beach, millennials
drink and frolic. boomers
aren’t worthy of attention.
bible-belted: pandemic three
at a local hospital, sixty-five
year olds are automatic dnr’s.
ok, boomer.
bible-belted: pandemic four
and why listen anyway? trump
a floundering befuddlement.
silas marner on his deathbed
counting.
bible-belted: pandemic five
the poor are disposable. feed
them to the highest bidder.
auction the rest on the stock
market.
bible-belted: pandemic six
the economy
hungers so feed it. who cares?
drool the one percent.
bible-belted: pandemic seven
open letter to the homeless:
die.
sincerely,
the federal government
bible-belted: pandemic eight
texas & ohio declare abortions
non-essential & unnecessary.
stay out of their vaginas.
bible-belted: pandemic nine
a man in arizona imbibes
chloroquine then dies.
trump prayed to god it works.
bible-belted: pandemic ten
cabin-feverish, we venture
in the wild to loot toilet
paper & bread. human instinct.
Other bible-belted poems can be found in Quraysh Ali Lansana’s the skin of dreams: new and collected poems 1995-2018, available at thecalliopegroup.com, and in Wal-Mart Republic, written with Christopher Stewart and available from The Calliope Group’s Bookshop Store.
