Without Doing Anything.... Poem by RIC BASTASA

now who thinks about
family planning? who shall talk
about abortion? or ethnic cleansing?
who shall have a budget for
birth pills or contraception?

is anybody talking about climate
change? or that master plan to change
this world? to limit population?
is being a doctor or a nurse alluring?
will your daughter take up the
medical profession?

eat with your bare hands? hug and
kiss friends in the party?
have more volleyball in the beach?
or jam yourself on the train
or in the bus?

what are we talking much about
alcohol, and bleaching agents, and
face masks and soap and water?
it is this virus, we did not really
think much about it, until it came
and killed almost everyone without
doing anything.