©2020 E. R. Smith
respond.
Asleep, fear for pay day.
Schools, where’s remote access to future?
Masses war for paper towels; made
celebrity with Trump’s toss at Puerto Rico.
Shelves bare, ninety nine cents items
sell for a fortune.
Capitalism shows it’s ass!
Where’s chicken; bloody beef everywhere?
Get cash? Let ride in accounts?
Mexicans keep Americans out?
Looking down, cold feet on tiles.
Awake, amidst aisles empty..
Six degrees of social separation walking.