Frank De Canio

Union City, N J. USA

 

As a brief bio: Born & bred in New Jersey, I worked in New York City for many years. I love music from Bach to Amy Winehouse. Shakespeare is my consolation, writing my hobby. As poets, I like Dylan Thomas, Allen Ginsberg, and Sylvia Plath. I also attend a Café Philo every other week in Lower Manhattan. 

                                                                               

Poem completed 8th April 2020

 

 

Corona’s Apocalypse  

 

I don’t believe a missile-launched attack

could wreak such havoc on those living it

Although our buildings still remain intact

there aren’t many people giving it

a second thought, for all the friends they’ve lost;

familiar faces who’d been working there

who now must suffer the financial cost

of businesses whose coffers may be bare.

The smoldering that follows bombed out ruins

is mirrored in the thoughts of those who brood.

I ponder thus, the seething social wounds

inflicted on those wanting fortitude

to put the fractured pieces of their lives

together in the body that survives.