Jews-over- gentiles
followed by
Fool's gold and Blood-diamond
and then,
The-rainbow-got-it-right
in the winners enclosure stood
No-suchthing-as-black-or-white

Everywhere you see masks
Cities in panick
Shouts of corona
Life's indeed
For rent

Crowd of skin flock for tan
with too many feet sands are pressed
a minion before the monstrous plan
the sea recedes waves are depressed.

Chairs are littered tents abound
through walls of flesh the sea is far
the beach is now a carnival ground
where noise holds fort and peace debarred.

I seek that place where the two of us
would hear the voice of deep solitude
walked in dream through melting hours
on a paradise now lost for good.

I tell my children the shades of hue
when the sea mirrored the colors of sky
till greed of men for more revenue
poisoned the beach drove her to die.

When butterflies fall in love, do they feel humans in their stomach?

Sometimes
The panic
Is more dangerous
Than the pandemic