My Unmasked Oration

They say that I should cover my mouth
FOR SAFETY’S SAKE:
what comes out of my mouth could kill you.
Every risk without exception
comes from my unmasked oration.
None come in association
with appointment cancellation,
lack of medical attention,
law-enforced immune suppression,
mental illness aggravation,
universal isolation,
loneliness and desperation,
bans on normal human function,
family disintegration,
school’s indefinite suspension,
education’s degradation,
economic desolation,
massive currency inflation,
unjust wealth redistribution,
social fabric’s dissolution,
unacknowledged persecution
of the practice of religion,
Twitter-ruined reputation,
mob-inflicted retribution,
media intimidation,
headline slant and fabrication,
history’s complete revision,
interracial disaffection,
riots, looting, conflagration,
cultural degeneration
into chaos and destruction,
spreading threat of revolution,
governmental contravention
of the rights of all the nation,
state-approved disinformation,
censorship and speech proscription,
the unbridled demolition
of our whole civilisation
in the name of the prevention
of a terrible contagion
(Covid or free cogitation?)
risked by my unmasked oration.
STAY SAFE. WEAR A MASK.
What comes out of my mouth could kill you.
© 2020 Kilby Austin