Talk The Talk Poem by Chen-ou Liu

A Tanka Set, Fifty-Eighth Entry, Coronavirus Poetry Diary
to Justin Trudeau who addressed the House of Commons on saving the elderly from coronavirus on April 11, saying, "They fought for us all those years ago. And today we fight for them. We will show ourselves to be worthy of this magnificent country they built."

at the briefing
the photogenic PM's mouth
opens and closes...
a nursing home silhouetted
against the sunset sky

forty more deaths
slides across the bottom
of the screen...
a nurse's voice falters,
"this elder genocide"

FYI: Toronto Star May 7 report, "82% of Canada's COVID-19 deaths have been in long-term care, new data reveals."