Did you hear AND died?
Did you know God cried?
½ million people in the U. S.
A.lone
Have lost their AND
They exist no more
They are seen no more
Gone
In the covid roar.
30 million people in the U. S.
A.lone
Gasping for air
Grasping for strands
of hope,
of fair
ness,
of breath
less
repair.
Did you know?
AND is a precious commodity
More precious than gold
Than emeralds
Than titanium
Or uranium.
You cannot buy it
Trade it
NFT it
Or bitcoin it.
It is impervious
to manipulation
intervention
monetization
emasculation
or feminization.
It knows no gender
no race
no zip code
no place.
It escapes detection
direction
disaffection
or dissection.
AND simply is
(until it is not).
But when it is not…
AND was our off-spring, our baby, our child.
AND was our linguistic genius, gone wild.
AND was God-given, so natural, so right
That we never conceived
Never believed
It ever could
Never would
Vanish from sight.
It can't be, God said
How can AND be dead?
What's over the hill of eternity?
There must be more
In the species store
Than a teaspoon of pusillanimity.
But when covid arrived
AND couldn't survive
Under this blast of insanity.
Was it only a dream?
A programmer's scheme
To delay the inevitability?
If there is no AND
Then the human hand
Has created its own final eulogy.
If there is no AND
Then the promised land
Sinks beyond the reach of all sanity.
Have you heard AND died?
Did you know God cried?
No.
And?
c. Corinne Whitaker 2018 - 2021
Notes: Adapted from "AND", Corinne Whitaker, 2018
