Today's New Verse News: NOT OVER
by Dion Farquhar
I’m Omicron, son of Delta I skipped generations from four to fifteen letters of the Greek alphabet I’ve outrun Delta gone after 200,000 more surpassed a million despite decrees, desires for the old normal —that hell for everyone (but the dead) to get back to work forget your boosters travel bans and masks after all this time you still don’t get what global means you may be faster smarter now but after two and a half years so am I your rich country as backward as the ones you’ve impoverished but you win again, America tally the most dead so dream on about “herd immunity” your unvaxed forty percent still my gateway and I’m here to stay
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Dion Farquhar has recent poems in Non-Binary Review, Superpresent, Blind Field, Poesis, Cape Rock: Poetry, Poydras Review, Mortar, Local Nomad, Columbia Poetry Review, moria, Shifter,BlazeVOX, etc. Her third poetry book Don’t Bother is in press at Finishing Line Press, and she has three chapbooks. She works as an exploited adjunct at two universities, but still loves the classroom, and she is active in the University of California Santa Cruz adjunct union, the UC-AFT. Dion Farquhar has recent poems in Non-Binary Review, Superpresent, Blind Field, Poesis, Cape Rock: Poetry, Poydras Review, Mortar, Local Nomad, Columbia Poetry Review, moria, Shifter,BlazeVOX, etc. Her third poetry book Don’t Bother is in press at Finishing Line Press, and she has three chapbooks. She works as an exploited adjunct at two universities, but still loves the classroom, and she is active in the University of California Santa Cruz adjunct union, the UC-AFT.