I’m Omicron, son of Delta
I skipped generations
from four to fifteen
letters of the Greek alphabet
I’ve outrun Delta
gone after 200,000 more
surpassed a million
despite decrees, desires
for the old normal
—that hell
for everyone (but the dead)
to get back to work
forget your boosters
travel bans and masks
after all this time
you still don’t get what global means
you may be faster
smarter now
but after two and a half years
so am I
your rich country as backward
as the ones you’ve impoverished
but you win again, America
tally the most dead
so dream on about “herd immunity”
your unvaxed forty percent
still my gateway
and I’m here to stay
Dion Farquhar has recent poems in Non-Binary Review, Superpresent, Blind Field, Poesis, Cape Rock: Poetry, Poydras Review, Mortar, Local Nomad, Columbia Poetry Review, moria, Shifter,BlazeVOX, etc. Her third poetry book Don’t Bother is in press at Finishing Line Press, and she has three chapbooks. She works as an exploited adjunct at two universities, but still loves the classroom, and she is active in the University of California Santa Cruz adjunct union, the UC-AFT. Dion Farquhar has recent poems in Non-Binary Review, Superpresent, Blind Field, Poesis, Cape Rock: Poetry, Poydras Review, Mortar, Local Nomad, Columbia Poetry Review, moria, Shifter,BlazeVOX, etc. Her third poetry book Don’t Bother is in press at Finishing Line Press, and she has three chapbooks. She works as an exploited adjunct at two universities, but still loves the classroom, and she is active in the University of California Santa Cruz adjunct union, the UC-AFT.
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