Gone to the Birds

World Health Organization
reports
#vaccinations
administered
by air travel
break our distance
the answer
contradicts
wet market
obfuscation
origin stories
rapid testing
rising
numbers
birds
gather in public
unmasked
fed prescriptions
sourdough pieces
intensive care
moistly
distributed
to the populations
all variants
flock together
casting caution
to the ventilation
open borders
cites
“#PigeonPower —
the cure.”

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Submitted as part of “National/Global Poetry Writing Month” (#NaPoWriMo #GloPoWriMo).

Today’s prompt: Day Thirteen: “Today’s prompt comes from the Instagram account of Sundress Publications, which posts a writing prompt every day, all year long. This one is short and sweet: write a poem in the form of a news article you wish would come out tomorrow.”