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The Invaders : Part Three ( Final )
................America's response to the coronavirus has brought to light class divisions, racist institutions, corporate greed, and underfunded public services. And while the nation struggles to cope with over 200,000 deaths at the time of this poem's creation , this isn't the first or the last pandemic that America will experience. As various states open up around the country, their infection rates are rising; many expect a second , third or even fourth wave of coronavirus infections to hit, especially given the uncoordinated government response, which was further hampered by the police violence that erupted in or around late May. What we fail to realize is ....we aren't all that powerful without our weapons and modern armor and that is really what segregated us in the first place , power ( or at least the illusion that we own a plentiful amount ).Overall, we are fragile . We don't need a widescale sci fi calamity to eradicate us .We don't have to have to have our planet sliced in two . We don't have to blast ourselves off Earth with every single explosive possible . Just this tiny invader . The coronavirus itself is forcing us to do something weird ....to look at how vulnerable we are .
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