MAHA GOSPEL, OUTBREAK SEASON EDITION

by David Anson Lee

 

Caricature by DonkeyHotey at Pinterest.

Make America Healthy Again, he says
as if health were a slogan, not weather.

He holds food like contested scripture:
dyes, preservatives, words too long to trust.

“Return to purity,” he says,
while measles redraws old maps
without permission or press release.

Hospitals hum in reluctant chorus.
Pharmacies speak in minor key.
A mother searches immunity
and finds ten thousand prophets.

Even vitamins argue theology now.

He calls it restoration:
as if history were a diet plan
instead of a returning headline
with better lighting each time.

David Anson Lee is a physician, philosopher, and poet whose work explores intersections of medicine, memory, and public life. His poems have appeared in journals including Right Hand Pointing, Eunoia Review, Ink Sweat & Tears, and others. He is based in Texas.

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