COVID, a Different Perspective
It appears that
in order to save herself,
our wise old Mother Earth
has instinctively and naturally
created her very own virus to
fight off what has caused
by far
the largest irreparable damage
to her breathing lush green forests
to her extreme pure pristine polar caps
to her life filled regenerative deep blue seas
to her thin protective fragile atmosphere
and currently poses the foremost
ominous escalating threat to the
future of her very own existence.
We self obsessed Homo sapiens
call it COVID and naively claim
it was deliberately created by one
of our very own in a laboratory
in a hostile country.
But Mother Earth knows different.
She recognizes how as a fungus devours
a sweet ripe orange, she must stop this
creeping parasitical human fungus from
spreading, devouring and finally sucking
the life out of her entire once beautiful
planet by herself.... She created COVID.
Edward Ferri, Jr., grew up on a "nonprofit" farm on the dry side of the Santa Cruz Mountains in California when "Bailing wire, gumption, and spit" were the "apps" of the day. He has long returned to those mountains and is the acting Sergeant of email Notifications & Attendance Records for the 27-year Garlicky Group of Poets in Gilroy, California. He is a tribal member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation of Shawnee, Oklahoma. His poetry has appeared in multiple publications, and he is the author of Glassy Air, Poems Kindled in the Long Shadow of a Lone Motorcycle.
It appears that
in order to save herself,
our wise old Mother Earth
has instinctively and naturally
created her very own virus to
fight off what has caused
by far
the largest irreparable damage
to her breathing lush green forests
to her extreme pure pristine polar caps
to her life filled regenerative deep blue seas
to her thin protective fragile atmosphere
and currently poses the foremost
ominous escalating threat to the
future of her very own existence.
We self obsessed Homo sapiens
call it COVID and naively claim
it was deliberately created by one
of our very own in a laboratory
in a hostile country.
But Mother Earth knows different.
She recognizes how as a fungus devours
a sweet ripe orange, she must stop this
creeping parasitical human fungus from
spreading, devouring and finally sucking
the life out of her entire once beautiful
planet by herself.... She created COVID.
Edward Ferri, Jr., grew up on a "nonprofit" farm on the dry side of the Santa Cruz Mountains in California when "Bailing wire, gumption, and spit" were the "apps" of the day. He has long returned to those mountains and is the acting Sergeant of email Notifications & Attendance Records for the 27-year Garlicky Group of Poets in Gilroy, California. He is a tribal member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation of Shawnee, Oklahoma. His poetry has appeared in multiple publications, and he is the author of Glassy Air, Poems Kindled in the Long Shadow of a Lone Motorcycle.