Everyone Has Covid

By Suzanne D. Miller

PROMPT—During Covid-19 ...

Everyone has Covid

Hyperbole but true

Everyone has Covid

I’m boosted - hey - are you?

Everyone has Covid

Yet restaurants still fill

(yet Everyone has Covid)

You look a little ill

Everyone has Covid

but basketball goes on

Everyone has Covid

Oh, her? So sad, she’s gone.

Everyone has Covid

The hospital staffs so stressed!

Everyone has Covid

I think they need a rest

Everyone has Covid

(well everyone but me)

Everyone has Covid

We’re all fine, can’t you see?!

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Suzanne D. Miller lives in South Carolina. When not scribbling poetry, she leads EssayFaire, a writing and essay coaching firm specializing in college applications and research. An economist who ended up homeschooling, she believes society suffers when analytical people and creative people do not cross-pollinate. She attempts to rectify that through poetry.