Two Haiku
(all words White House Remarks, April 23rd, 2020)
We hit the body
just very powerful light
it kills it in one.
The disinfectant
by injection inside
almost a cleaning.
Here is another installment of abbreviated notes from key White House press conferences - this conference dated 23.4.2020 is already beyond infamous, and has been the basis of brilliant satire on Tiktok etc. - but it still stands out as the moment when something has come full circle, when all of a sudden you realise that up really is down now, and there is virtually nothing you can do about it.