None Of Us Want To Be Martyrs Poem by Chen-ou Liu

None Of Us Want To Be Martyrs



hospital window
the Maple Leaf flying
at half-mast

"I'm starving. Thirsty. Tired. I wore my N95 mask for ten hours straight. Careful to conserve my #PPE..., " her last tweet has gone viral. Now, this dedicated nurse, a mother of two girls, becomes a dot added to the heat map of covid-19 confirmed cases and deaths.

Wednesday, December 16, 2020
Topic(s) of this poem: death,disaster,illness,nurse
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