A Summer of No Importance
作者：陈国雄
My yearlong plan
Fell through
My first book
Delayed many times
First it was two months
Then it was four
Now 8 months
And probably more
It was turning into
A summer of no importance
The covid pandemic
Gathered everyone
Into the same boat
Rich and poor
Together
We live or die
Never happened
Like this before
That invisible virus
Had one serious flaw
It could not recognize
‘First class’
From the floor
No time
To feel sorry
For oneself
The dead are quickly melting
Into that big ‘melting pot’
That never materialized
When more Americans were alive
I lose count
Of all those covid scenarios
That can never hurt us
And is coming back
To taunt us
Because covid can
My imagination
Is exhausted
I cannot keep up
It had become
A summer of no importance
Or so I thought
Until I started writing
All the important things
I miss
And now lost
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