英文诗歌：Worse Than Yesterday U.S.

Worse Than Yesterday

U.S. Pandemic

作者：陈国雄

Today is worse than yesterday

That is life in covid America

Unless you are a ‘nonbreathing corporation’

If you are currently not breathing

Then today is better than yesterday

Nonbreathing corporations weren’t people yesterday

Today, ‘nonbreathing corporations’ are people amended under US Constitution

It happened between 1868 to 2010

‘Nonbreathing corporations’ changed

US constitution to say

‘Nonbreathing corporations’ are equal to

‘breathing people’

This is how nonbreathing corporations work

Let’s just call them ‘nonbreathers’

Yesterday, doctors owned their own practice

Doctors used to make life or death decisions

Today, ‘nonbreathers’ own many US hospitals

‘Nonbreathers’ (not doctors) make life or death decisions for Americans daily now

‘Nonbreathers’ decide if breathing should continue

And that is how the US pandemic ends

America stops breathing

© Chen Guo Xiong 2021