200,000
Two Hundred Thousand
How many of these people
Would still be alive today
If this wasn’t an election year
If national plans preserving public health
Had been regarded as something
Worthwhile instead of violating
Republican orthodoxy about
Big Government, State’s Rights,
And Free, Unfettered Markets
>
You probably have relatives
Who still believe the Trump Lie
That his woeful response was better
Than doing nothing and maybe causing
An apocryphal figure of Two Million deaths
Thanks to their belief in the infallibility
Of The Donald, you’ll probably spend
Virtual holidays on phone, Zoom or FaceTime
Unless you give in and say you don’t know
Anyone who actually has Coronavirus
And you sit closely alongside family
Passing the Russian roulette pistol around
Between servings of turkey, stuffing and cranberries
Working on raising the casualty numbers to
Two Hundred Seventy Five Thousand
Or perhaps an even 300K
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