My sonnet about Donald Trump's contraction of Covid-19. What did he know and when did he know it? Anyway, the TRump Admin ended a moratorium in 2017 on gain-of-function virus research because it was dangerous and could lead to a pandemic. The Wuhan lab in question may have been dabbling in g-o-f. This the karmic irony.

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What Goes Around
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by John Kendall Hawkins
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When Trump started up the gain-of-function

research Obama had shut down, fearing

that f*cking with nature without compunction

could lead to vile bugaboos appearing,

he opened a door that should've stayed shut

for safety reasons -- leave the bats alone,

don't muck about in guano, hombre, but

no, no getting through a head made of bone.

After all the taunts, and talks of hoaxes,

claims he takes Hydroxychloroquine,

after all the scientific coaxes

to make him understand, to come to glean.

Was Trump reckless, daft, or just plain lazy?

It's enough to drive you batshit crazy.
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This poem first appeared in Counterpunch on October 5, 2020.

Authors Website: https://tantricdispositionmatrix.substack.com/

Authors Bio:

John Kendall Hawkins is an American ex-pat freelance journalist and poet currently residing in Oceania.