Is To Mask Or Not To Mask Your Question? Poem by Chen-ou Liu

Seventy-Fifth Entry, Coronavirus Poetry Diary, a haibun written in the spirit of senryu


A notice posted on the large window at the entrance to American Beauty Salon reads:

Dear Customers:

If you FEEL (not think) that you need to wear a mask, please stay home until you FEEL that it is safe to be out in public without one. No Mask Allowed.

"business as usual..."
a masked woman mutters
to herself


Note: The seventy-ninth entry is a sequel to the fifty-first entry:

business as usual
giant Stars-and-Stripes flapping
over a salon