Cover-Up Poem by Chen-ou Liu

Cover-Up



A Tanka Prose

In the middle of a question at the Make America Great Again briefing, the President demands that a Reuters journalist remove the face mask because of his muffled voice.The journalist refuses.

hundreds
line up at the food bank...
on seeing me
a laid-off colleague
turns into a side street

Saturday, December 19, 2020
Topic(s) of this poem: disaster,food,illness,political,poverty
COMMENTS OF THE POEM
Unnikrishnan E S 19 December 2020

Marvellous tanka. If I am permitted to borrow a phrase from Marquez, it is “Love in times or COVID 19”, that provokes a poet in you to pen such a beautiful poem. Loved it. Congratulations.

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