let's lick electrical outlets then jump off a cliff

yesterday I read that Covid19 is declining
yesterday I also read that it is at its worst

vaccinated parents are taking
their unvaccinated on children on trips to Hawaii
no need to guess who doesn't make it back home

in other news
mass shootings every day
some man in Florida broke into
the home of two women and stabbed
them to death
the police said it was random
like we trust their opinion

schools are opening full time 
masks mandates are slipping
is it just me or is this the worst possible time
to leave your house?

I am visiting my family
on mothers day weekend
but other then leaving the house today
to go to the pet store
to get my anxious pandemic puppy
​chew toys so she won't get depressed
and attempt to lick the electrical sockets

I would like to lick the outlets myself
nothing is right everything is off
it is like I am looking at one of
those magic eye posters
and everyone in the world is seeing 
the image reveal itself but I am not
or everyone is like me and not seeing it either
but pretending 

so I am a lemming now
we all are and all of this insanity
is mass suicide
beginnings can only happen
after some sort of ending
the pandemic hasn't ended

new vaccine "facts" are changed on the hour
as for the CDC and  the FDA
I wouldn't let them take care of my dog
the facts about how to keep a dog alive
might change for them while I am gone
and I will end up coming home 
to a dead pup

propaganda is a form of manipulation
teens on TikTok have vaccine loyalism
read that again and again until it sinks in

this isn't a vampire romance novel
team Edward and team Jacob are now
team Pfizer and Moderna 
It is fucking weird
a bizarro Twilight Zone

welcome to the church
​of big brother pharmaceuticals
our new nationalism has arrived