I confess
earlier in the summer
when I replied
to the celebrations
hailing the pandemic’s end
with a wary reminder
that we had previously believed
the plague finished in the summer
only for it to return in the fall:
I had hoped I’d be wrong
god damn
how I’d hoped I’d be wrong.
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