New Poem: MAGICAL IMPULSIVENESS

literal minded people
see the president saying no to masks
leader of the free world displays revulsion
like spayed/neutered cats and dogs
wearing Elizabethan collars
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masks tossed to pavement
laid on top of trash and recycle bins
people squeeze through discount stores
acting as if they’re in THE MUSIC MAN
thinking they’re using Professor Hill’s think system
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if we don’t wear masks
and we stand six inches instead of six feet apart
and if everyone else we see does this,
we’ll play our instruments perfectly
and no disease will ever bother us
in our blissful oblivious state
of magical impulsive recklessness