Laura Grace Weldon
Randomized Trial
by virus is not so random.
We hide our faces, count
one Mississippi, two Mississippi.
Sickness spreads in corners where no one
wants to hunker, sinks into bodies
history has long held down
gasping ignored on wider tree-lined streets
where death stats are weighed
against stock market trends.
There’s no placebo effect in this trial.
Peer review isn’t the woman who tweets,
Do you even know someone who has it?
We’re still counting
three Mississippi, four Mississippi,
five million Mississippi…