heavy sickness tanka

virus multiplies—
white cells, sharpened, overdrive—
a heavy sickness
descends like hot molasses
on overtaxed wheezing lungs

What I’m Reading:

In one day, NBC, ABC and CBS spent almost as much time covering Jeff Bezos’s eleven-minute flight in his giant metal phallus as on all climate issues in the preceding year.

— George Monbiot / “Changing the Media Narrative”  / The Climate Book: The Facts and the Solutions