Demarcating Coronavirus

If we could
sustain the distinction,
and distinguish clearly
between the
virus from bacteria
white from black,
Ebola outbreak in Africa
from coronavirus in New York
how things might have been?

The contagious from touch
disinfectant from clean
profane from
the sacred,
the dead from
virus on surface.

And before the end
 
finger-printing from secure
isolation from segregation,
Flat from the curve
from fat off the curve.
The schism and prism
that adds to an ism.

Arrest the endemic crisis
within the system
to reach and match
the scale of the pandemic.
In other words
the social from distancing,
before the cast of the invisible
appears as
translucent visible matter.

If we all could
sustain and enforce
the distinction,
and mark off
the interim from measures
the process from final
Who knows, how things,
could have been.

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