Dispatches from a Pandemic: Enough

Content Note: Death by gun violence, death by medical neglect, COVID-19

and he’s dead,
and sie’s dead,
and the list goes on,
and I wonder how we mourn,
if we mourn,
can we mourn?

everything feels empty and
everything feels full and
I just want the world to spin on and
leave me be.

someday I will learn how
to subsume my grief and
smile in the face of death but
today is not that day.

oh courtney,
oh mel,
I wish you were here.