Life in the Time of COVID-19, Part 25
Today’s poem is by Alan Berecka, a poet and librarian at the Del Mar College in Corpus Christi. And its companion piece is the Angel of Death, a 1890 painting by English painter Evelyn De Morgan. The painting is now housed at the De Morgan Centre in Guildford, Surrey, England.
Irony in the Time of COVID
By Alan Berecka
Irony in the time of the plague
pales, a toilet-paper-eating virus
fails to amuse. And, so, we hide
from one another, paint our door
jambs with the blood of lambs
mixed with sixty percent alcohol
not sure if our faith should be placed
in God or science of both. This angel
of death shall pass, and most of us
will survive, to be extinguished
in some forgettable manner, and, so
my old friend irony stands a chance
to be revived, but Iām not sure I will
hold him as dear, for my psyche
and my age seems to be drifting
toward a new awareness of the sincere.
“This angel of death shall pass, and most of us will survive, to be extinguished in some forgettable manner”
What a line! Thank you for publishing this poem.