Dogs 2020


Death Count(5/1/2020)
I’ve
always loved
numbers
whether
they represented
something significant
or not
lately
I've had
the same
morbid fascination
for the figures
of dead
from this
new virus
watching
the totals
rise
state
by state
county
by county
even
country
by country
seeing it
more
as a contest
than as
true
human loss
I have
always
been detached
from those
similar
beings
what’s
the quote
from the movie
Network?
“indifferent
to suffering
insensitive
to joy”
I can
own that
or be owned
by that
since
I really
don’t care enough
to make an effort
either way
I do
nothing
but observe
evaluate
disassociate
the spiking
graphs
from their
representations
of humanity
from the
pain
from the
fear
from the
tears
so foreign
in my singular
nation
of isolation