About Virus Are Us Online Exhibition
Virus Are Us is a page dedicated to original artworks paired with (original) poems relating to this incredible year. The pairings do not go as a rule but each poem is titled after the artwork. comments are allowed and please share.
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| Aerosol |
Sprayed for a purpose
Could kill or give life
It takes flight
Now unseen, unsmelt
It could reveal or hide
Diseases yet unheard
Aerosol
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| Bubble Bubble We can keep it out Keep in line Reality is ours to make The show must go on Clean everyone Test everything Create our reality Fr a short while Lest a tiny prick Burst the bubble  Airborne Within the womb Blood gushed Carriers found Gathered to trade Traded in death Cities locked down Sealed but not airtight Airborne |
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| Dislodged Dislodged It’s a staycation Hold on until the air clears Getting tipsy looking at four walls False mirrors without reflection Dislodged Looked forward staying home Now hating that bed Dislodged Forced to face the wall of your phone Punishment corner, a life sentence Dislodged Value added outdoors Premium price; a walk |
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| Found Occasions Found Occasions Scattered flowers Disordered memories Runaway events An All-Points Bulletin Apprehend any With matching description Profiling is subjective Objective is to apprehend At all cost Lost and lost Occasions gone astray Left without a note |
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| Fumes Fumes Carless cities Fogs’ gone underground Sleepy factories, restless curtains Lonesome roads, busy chairs Heavy traffic? Between the bed And the bathroom no stop signs yet not a freeway the cloud of noise has shifted now raining in the suburbs cats and dogs can roam free breathing fumeless airs oh bliss |
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| Homefull Homefull More space needed The home is now a filled car More people needed Else how will alms go? The trash should be full But food is lacking Indoor challenges Outdoor maladies Home less so More peace outside than in A sack to throw up in A little change will do But the home is full Thus we are empty therein |
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| Inbound Inbound We are not doing this, They started already Why break the lines? Inalienable disruptive rights How can things fall apart so quickly? Its humanity’s gift |
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| Irresolute Irresolute Reduce everything Color them blind Let the forest scream And humans howl Color separation Give it intelligence Because we control the resources Give it a mind to choose Let it strike through by color Reduce them now It is our opportunity The virus is on our side |
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| Lost! Wombs & Faces Lost! Wombs & Faces Thousands a day The aged and young Lost wombs & faces Say anything because Talk we must Put up a faceless bravado And cross your fingers It doesn’t diffuse through your door |
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| Mitigating Approach Mitigating Approach The semblance of order gives order The semblance of disorder is faithful too All you need to do to raise hell Is simply to talk hell Yet again, what do we know? |
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| National Pride National Pride We shall be the first It is important that we show them We must set ourselves apart Everyone must know why we are special This will just go away Victory is declared We have delivered |
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| Rabies Rabies Broken and diseased they said Put it down they said They will die anyway they said So our grannies laid |
Shmello
Nose masks
Get that droplet
Keep it at bay
Touch not
Speak not
Only muffled talk allowed
No it isn’t being rude
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| Spore Spore Spawn of what? Your nativity story Is still a mystery But your pride & stature Your cunning & reach Your strength & Posture Speaks of Royalty You must be royalty |
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| Urban Trace Urban Trace Follow the line Do it quickly Just one missed stepped Turns the ball over to politics |
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| Viral Echoes Viral Echoes Repeated sounds Re-echoing each reflection Mountains passed on the voice Ocean waves carried it along Shores welcomed it |
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| Winding Thoughts Winding Thoughts Why? Who? When? Where? How? Which? What? Then start from the beginning |
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| wmvhsi Wmvhsi What is in a name? A funnel locking out notions? What is in a name? A chain binding the imagination |
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| Zero Flight Zero Flight Yet aircraft are in the air Lear sized drones perhaps? No movement A traffic jam of government functionaries Essential workers Hairdressers included |
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