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                         They are Disinfecting Venice

          I have been trying to find out; no one will tell me the truth;
          they are disinfecting Venice. Do you know why?

                                    -Death in Venice

We live on islands in the virus-time
Shored in by disease and uncertainty
Waves of uncertainty, rumor, and fear
The deaths of friends bumping against us at night

Delivery trucks are our vaporetti
Ferrying our supplies across the Styx
That separates our then away from now
With imaginings outsourced from Lethe.com

They are burning stimulus checks in the streets
To disinfect us against reality