The Many Who Died.... Poem by RIC BASTASA

so many hadbeen said
and done,
the people panicked
the government says this
and then recalls that
the confusion is pandemic too
they lock and they open and
they lock again
the world is suffering from
lack of direction
so many perished, not much of
the covid
but more of the panic
the fear was more contagious
in fact, than
the disease.
more fake news, tsk tsk
shrewd and screwed these people
never changed
despite the calamities.