Sunday, May 24, 2020

Nevermore ~ Sunday, 24 March 2020

The corvids evidently know something, 
how they discern the coronavirus 
enigmatically puzzles scientists, 

causing a flutter of commotion, birds 
of the corvid family know sick people 
relatively faster than a lab test, 
virtually unheard of in science, 
in fact, it sounds more like fake news, a story 
decidedly fabricated to sell 
shitloads of domesticated ravens, 

even Edgar Allen Poe wouldn't write 
veritably unsolicited lies 
in the news media to make money, 
definitely not to sell poetry, 
ears to the ground say someone trumped it up, 
nobody is pointing fingers at whom, 
to be clear, children aren't screaming out loud, 
liar, liar, liar at the TV, 
yet, the President is on all channels, 

killing it in the polls, re-election, 
nobody wants to believe possible, 
of course, in a worst-case scenario 
we all vote against him and he still wins, 

smells fishy that Electoral College, 
of course, nobody graduates from there, 
maybe you're as bird-brained as the ravens, 
even though you may be smarter than crows, 
tell me how the ravens pick out people, 
however unlikely this story is, 
in the park under a tree, a raven 
noticing a sick person follows them, 
giving great concern with a caw, caw, caw. 

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