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A Triptych of Poems

  • July 27, 2020
  • 5:36 pm
  • Australia
the coronasplaining of the armchair virologists/ Donald J. Trump is the King of all Ventilators/ by a hard lockdown under drone biosurveillance
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Clay Thistleton

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            A Triptych of Poems

            in the Manner of Tom Jenks’ “Spruce”

            During the Time of the Coronavirus Pandemic

 


 

“The Trump Administration as a False Positive”

 

social distancing in a wet market in Wuhan

by a sneeze guard with some convalescent plasma

in an iso-hair outbreak in full PPE

 

in a second wave R naught hotspot

the Trump administration as a false positive

hotel quarantine for the pangolin herd

 

immunity strategies of the Toyota Corona

the contact tracing of stray sanitation stations

tears on the pavement that glisten like glass

 


 

“Donald J. Trump is the King of all Ventilators”

 

injecting disinfectant with the disaster capitalists

in a lax travel bubble with clandestine hairdressers

with some flu bro covidiots in a soft wobble room

 

the coronasplaining of the armchair virologists

Donald J. Trump is the King of all Ventilators

by a hard lockdown under drone biosurveillance

 

zoonotic diseases under the doona

a cytokine storm by the pop-up COVID clinic

the tears of the masked covfefe in bars

 


 

“The Trump Administration is Asymptomatic”

 

the horseshoe bats vector for an online migration

in an old normal without sanitiser fatigue

in an exponential growth of TP panic buying

 

an uptick in naso-pharyngeal swabs

the Trump administration is asymptomatic

aerosolising hate in Lafayette Park

 

flattening the curve by the zombie businesses

herd immunity by the respiratory droplets

on iron-covered rooftops rains scatter like wails

 

 

 

Clay Thistleton
Clay Thistleton has taught creative writing and literary studies in universities, community colleges and not-for-profit organisations for almost two decades. He is the author of Noisesome Ghosts (Blart Books, 2018): an Elgin Award nominated collection of found poetry that investigates the phenomenon of ghosts and poltergeists that have the ability to speak or write.  His current project, Never Mind the Saucers (Stranger Press, forthcoming), examines documented instances of alien-human sexual contact. Along with his son Dylan, Clay lives in New South Wales, Australia with a fluctuating number of feral cats.

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2 Responses

  1. Susan says:
    07/30/2020 at 1:11 AM

    Brilliant Clay, finally someone who has used the word covfefe in a context

    Reply
  2. Veronica C says:
    07/30/2020 at 9:08 AM

    I Love this Clay.
    Thanks for sharing your COVID art!

    Reply

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