Saturday, April 18, 2020

Wrestling the Greased Covid Giant

One hundred and eleven Minnesota covid deaths
as of today.
My mother read me the story of David
and Goliath,
who was not a sympathetic character, I’ll say—
kind of a cyclops
was Goliath,
killed with a stone to the eye.
Because in the story my mother read me
Odysseus blinded Goliath with a red-hot
poker and said No Man did it.
But the one hundred and eleven Minnesota covid deaths
will probably be blamed on Delilah now.
David’s hair grew much too long
and Delilah sheered it with a pair of scissors.
So we’re defenseless against the death that’s coming at us.
All of our Biblical heroes are dead.
One hundred and eleven Minnesta covid deaths.
My mother read me the story of Moishe and the plagues.