George Floyd Mural and white Cops Haiku

written one day after the one-year anniversary of George Floyd's death

passing the shadow

of the George Floyd mural wall

white cops on the beat

NeverEnding Story, May 26 2021

Not Again

The online version of the French newspaper, Le Courrier Picard, runs a Sunday headline reading “Nouveau Peril  Jaune?” (New Yellow Peril?), featuring a photo of an Asian woman wearing a face mask.

coronavirus ...

I read through yellowing pages

of La Peste

Fear has a knack of getting its way; we would realize this if we were not confined within four walls of our needs  and desires. Disguised as safety measures, fear of a pandemic has turned into a pandemic of fear ...  of the other.

Cattails, April, 2020

Note: Albert Camus's 1947 novel, La Peste (The Plague), tells the story of a plague sweeping the French Algerian city of Oran.