Exaggerated Days Poem by Lawrence S. Pertillar

We are living in incredible times.
And over the top,
Unstoppable exaggerated days.

Not only is there a pandemic spreading,
A threatening of death virus.
Racism is also,
Revealing the truth of its historic existence.
As a leader sits dismissing,
Every law there is to break.
While supporters and followers,
Cheer on the craze.

And it doesn't seem sarcastic at all to say,
If this leader today...
Should recommend or suggest,
That a jumping from airplanes...
Without a parachute.
Would be the best cure yet,
Guaranteeing all to become immuned...
From a fearing to catch covid-19.
Leaving people rushing to find a way,
To pay for their own chartered planes.
With a dressing to impress.
Having no fear of certain and immediate death.

To then complain,
From thousands of feet above the Earth.
Who it is among them,
Is more deserving and entitled to jump first.
For the sake of being impressive.
And the attention given they thirst.

Jumping they will do.
Out of a plane.
Clouding the Sun.
Eclipsing it.
As if a rain storm has begun.

"What a cynical,
Exaggerated comment to make these days."

Is it?
Who suggested,
People inject themselves with disinfectants.
Or bleach to cleanse and immune themselves,
From getting the virus?

"That was just a joke."

Was it?