Irony - Jan Corbett

[Larry Robinson]

Irony

France forbid burkhas in its elegant cities,
Americans persecuted those with covered faces

Our President forbid the entry of those people into our country
Schools/universities  made rules forbidding the strange coverings.

Must I go on?

God has played a wonderful trick on us all:
Wear the mask or die of a virus that is out of our control,
that is beyond our immigration rules
that does not see borders,
that is toys with the most intelligent minds on the planet,

mutating as I speak these very words, trying to survive in its primitive right.

Ah! irony. Now, even the male sex of the species, 
required to cover their faces, except for those eyes,
the haunting eyes that look for recognition, connection.

May the Covid 19 teach us the Unity we actually are
and have its Darwinistic impact  on those who remain arrogant.

	- Jan Corbett