The mask of
friendliness, the mask of kindness
We have been wearing
these for a while
But never will we
learn to wear
The mask that saves
our lives
Cover your noses and
mouths
Cover lest the
pathogen thrives
But our noses have
always cheated
Sniffing into others
personal lives
Wash hands with soaps
and sanitizers
Kill the virus and
save the game
Well doesn’t this
sound familiar?
Washing our hands and
passing the blame
Social distancing is
the new normal
Oh yes! This one we
are used to isn’t it?
Just the old normalcy
of discrimination
For caste cleaning we
do use it.
-Sydney Billford
Monteiro
